(n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct
from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use;
position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
(n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or
short part of a street open only at one end.
(n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a
mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a
stronghold; a region or country.
(n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement,
dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition;
also, official station; occupation; calling.
(n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or
removal of another being or thing being implied).
(n.) A definite position or passage of a document.
(n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as,
he said in the first place.
(n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.
(n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually
defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and
longitude.
(n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place,
or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to
fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place
balls in tennis.
(n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to
surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint
to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is
placed.
(n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place
money in a bank.
(n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a
friend.
(n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.
