Place may refer to:
Geography
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Place (United States Census Bureau)
The United States Census Bureau defines a place as a concentration of population which has a name, is locally recognized, and is not part of any other place. A place typically has a residential nucleus and a closely spaced street pattern, and it f ...
, defined as any concentration of population
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Census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
, 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
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular location, place. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of Dwelling, dwellings gro ...
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Incorporated place (see
municipal corporation
Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. The term can also be used to describe municipally o ...
), a populated area with its own municipal government
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Location (geography)
In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous bou ...
, 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, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France
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Plače, a small settlement in Slovenia
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Place (Mysia), a town of ancient Mysia, Anatolia, now in Turkey
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Place, New Hampshire, a location in the United States
Facilities and structures
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Place House, a 16th-century mansion largely remodelled in the 19th century, in Fowey, Cornwall, England
* Place House, a 19th-century mansion on the site of a medieval priory, in
St Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall, England
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Prideaux Place
Prideaux Place is a Listed building, grade I listed Elizabethan architecture, Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for over 400 years. The house was built in 1592 by ...
, an Elizabethan mansion in Padstow, Cornwall, England
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The Place (London), a dance and performance centre in London, England
People with the name
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Place (surname), people with the surname ''Place''
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
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Places (Martin Solveig song), 2016
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Places (Xenia Ghali song)
"Places" is a song recorded, written, and produced by Greek DJ Xenia Ghali, featuring vocals by singer-songwriter Raquel Castro. The track became Ghali's second single to reach number one on the '' Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart in its May ...
Albums
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''Places'' (Béla Fleck album), 1988
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''Places'' (Brad Mehldau album), 2000
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''Places'' (Casiopea album), 2003
* "Places", a song from Ella Henderson's 2022 album ''
Everything I Didn't Say
''Everything I Didn't Say'' is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Ella Henderson. It was released on 11 March 2022 by Major Tom's and Asylum Records, marking Henderson's first full-length album since her 2014 debut '' C ...
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''Places'' (Georgie James album), 2007
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''Places'' (Jan Garbarek album), 1978
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''Places'' (Lea Michele album), 2017
* ''The Place'' (album), a 2003 music album
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
*''Place'', Australian magazine merged into ''
The Adelaide Review
''The Adelaide Review'' (AR) was a monthly print arts magazine and dynamic website in Adelaide, South Australia. It was first published in 1984, but gained standing after one of its writers, Christopher Pearson, took it over in 1985. In March ...
'' in 2008
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r/place
r/place was a recurring collaborative project and social experiment hosted on the content aggregator site Reddit. Originally launched on April Fools' Day 2017, it has since been repeated again on April Fools' Day 2022 and on July 20, 2023.
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, a social experiment by Reddit for April Fool's Day
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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
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''The Place'' (film), a 2017 Italian film
Gambling
* , 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
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Place (mathematics), an equivalence class of absolute values of an integral domain or field
* In place-value, or
positional notation
Positional notation, also known as place-value notation, positional numeral system, or simply place value, usually denotes the extension to any radix, base of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system (or decimal, decimal system). More generally, a posit ...
, the position occupied by a digit in a numeral
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Petri net, also known as a Place/transition net, a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems
Society
* Place, a person's
social position
Social position is the position of an individual in a given society and culture. A given position (for example, the occupation of ''priest'') may belong to many individuals.
Definition
Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust Stanley cautioned ...
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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
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Sense of place, a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location
See also
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Location (disambiguation)
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Locus (disambiguation), Latin for 'place'
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Placement (disambiguation)
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Plaice, a type of fish, misspelt as 'place'
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Plas (disambiguation)
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Platz (disambiguation)
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Plaza
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Laplace (disambiguation), including "la Place"
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