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Geography

* Place (United States Census Bureau), defined as any concentration of population ** Census-designated place, a populated area lacking its own municipal government * "Place", a type of street or road name ** Often implies a dead end (street) or cul-de-sac * Place, based on the Cornish word "plas" meaning
mansion A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word ''mansio'' "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb ''manere'' "to dwell". The English word '' manse'' originally defined a property l ...
* Place, a populated place, an area of human settlement ** Incorporated place (see municipal corporation), a populated area with its own municipal government *
Location (geography) In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...
, an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space which has a name in an area


Placenames

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Placé Placé () is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. See also *Communes of Mayenne The following is a list of the 240 communes of the Mayenne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunali ...
, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France *
Plače Plače () is a small settlement in the Vipava Valley in the Municipality of Ajdovščina in the Littoral region of Slovenia. Together with the neighbouring villages of Male Žablje and Vipavski Križ it forms the local community A local community ...
, a small settlement in Slovenia *
Place (Mysia) Placia or Plakia or Placie or Plakie ( grc, Πλακίη), also known as Placa or Plaka or Place or Plake (Πλάκη), was a town of ancient Mysia, on the coast of the Propontis, at the foot of the Mysian Olympus east of Cyzicus. It was a Pelasgia ...
, a town of ancient Mysia, Anatolia, now in Turkey *
Place, New Hampshire Place is an unincorporated community in the town of Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. Place is located on New Hampshire Route 11 northwest of Rochester Rochester may refer to: Places Australia * Rochester, Victori ...
, a location in the United States *
Place House Place House is a Grade I listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall, England. Home of the Treffry family since the thirteenth century, the original structure was a fifteenth-century tower, which was defended against the French in 1475 by Elizabet ...
, a 16th-century mansion largely remodelled in the 19th century, in Fowey, Cornwall * Place House, a 19th-century mansion on the site of a medieval priory, in St Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall * Prideaux Place, an Elizabethan mansion in Padstow, Cornwall


People with the name

* Place (surname), people with the surname ''Place''


Arts, entertainment, and media


Music

* Places (Béla Fleck album), ''Places'' (Béla Fleck album), 1988 * Places (Brad Mehldau album), ''Places'' (Brad Mehldau album), 2000 * Places (Casiopea album), ''Places'' (Casiopea album), 2003 * "Places", a song from Ella Henderson's 2022 album ''Everything I Didn't Say'' * Places (Georgie James album), ''Places'' (Georgie James album), 2007 * Places (Jan Garbarek album), ''Places'' (Jan Garbarek album), 1978 * Places (Lea Michele album), ''Places'' (Lea Michele album), 2017 *Places (Martin Solveig song), 2016 *Places (Xenia Ghali song)


Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

*''Place'', Australian magazine merged into ''The Adelaide Review'' in 2008 * Place (Reddit), or /r/Place, a social experiment by Reddit for April Fool's Day * The Place (London), a dance and performance centre in Camden, London * ''To Place'', a series of books on Iceland by artist Roni Horn * ''Unity of place'', one of the three classical unities for drama derived from Aristotle's ''Poetics'' * ''Places Journal'', a journal of architecture criticism


Gambling

* Craps#Place, in craps a bet that a point number will be rolled before a seven * Place, in horse racing, a parimutuel bet that a horse will finish first or within a predetermined number of positions of first. In North America, this would mean finishing first or second.


Mathematics

* Place (mathematics), an equivalence class of absolute values of an integral domain or field * In place-value, or positional notation, the position occupied by a digit in a numeral * Petri net, also known as a Place/transition net, a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems


Society

* Place, a person's social position * Place identity, a group of ideas concerning significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants or users * Place setting, a table setting for a single diner * Sense of place, a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location


See also

* The Place (disambiguation) * Location (disambiguation) * Locus (disambiguation), Latin for 'place' * Placement (disambiguation) * Plaice, a type of fish, misspelt as 'place' * Plas (disambiguation) * Platz (disambiguation) * Plaza {{disambiguation, geo