place

n

1. location, locality, locale, whereabouts, hereabouts; spot, scene, scene of the crime, setting, Law. venue; bearings, latitude and longitude, coordinates.

2. position, situation, circumstance, condition, state, state of affairs; standing, rank, grade, means, class, estate, status; footing, station, elevation, step, Inf. notch; niche, slot, berth, billet.

3. job, employment, occupation, work, livelihood, living, pursuit; vocation, calling, profession, field, metier, line, forte, Sl. thing, Sl. bag; capacity, office.

4. function, use, purpose, role, operation; charge, responsibility, duty, task, chore, assignment, mission; affair, concern, interest, matter, Inf. lookout; scope, sphere, compass, bailiwick.

5. region, area, sector, section, quarter, zone, pale, division; territory, realm, province, shire; district, precinct, neighborhood.

6. court, lane, way, drive, circle; alley, Chiefly Brit. mews, Chiefly Brit. terrace; road, avenue, street.

7. house, home, abode, dwelling, domicile, residence, habitation, Scot. howf; lodgings, quarters, living quarters, rooms, accommodations, housing, roof over one's head, Inf. pad, Brit. Inf. digs; apartment, flat, tenement, walk-up, Brit. chambers.

8. lieu, stead, substitution, exchange.

9. go places

Slang. progress, make progress, advance, gain, proceed, get along, come on, come along, make steps, make headway, make strides or rapid strides; succeed, make it, make it big, Sl. go far.

10. in place

in position, in trim, in order, set in order, set up, ordered, arranged, Inf. to rights.

11. out of place

a. out of order, in disorder, disorderly, disorganized, disarranged, deranged, in a mess, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, skimble-skamble, topsy-turvy, Sl. arsy-varsy.b. inapposite, out-of-line, out-of-bounds, out-of-step, out-of-keep-ing; unseemly, unbecoming, improper, off-color.

12. put someone in his place

humble, humiliate, mortify, bring down, Inf. take or bring down a notch or peg, Sl. put down, make [s.o.] eat humble pie, Inf. make [s.o.] eat crow, Inf. make [s.o.] eat his words, Inf. make [s.o.] swallow his pride.

13. take place

happen, Archaic. hap, occur, come to pass, come to be, come about, come, Inf. come off; befall, supervene, betide, chance, Archaic. bechance, Archaic. arrive; transpire, intervene, crop up.

v

14. arrange, order, dispose, array, assort, collocate; group, sort, classify, class, categorize, bracket; size, grade, graduate, rank.

15. lay, set, put, seat, posit; locate, situate, position, pinpoint; quarter, house, reposit, deposit; consign, localize, post, station.

16. hire, engage, employ, retain, secure the services of, contract with; enlist, sign on, take on, Inf. take on board.

17. appoint, commission, charge, entrust, commit, depute, delegate; invest, install, induct, ordain; specify, fix, determine, prescribe.

18. identify, recognize, know, make out, Inf. spot, Inf. nail, Inf. peg.