Place |
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. |
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Place |
A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. |
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Place |
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. |
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Place |
Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. |
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Place |
Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). |
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Place |
A definite position or passage of a document. |
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Place |
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place. |
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Place |
Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for. |
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Place |
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. |
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Place |
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. |
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Place |
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. |
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Place |
To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank. |
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Place |
To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. |
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Place |
To attribute; to ascribe; to set down. |
n. |
Proud |
Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense |
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Proud |
Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous. |
superl. |
Proud |
Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country. |
superl. |
Proud |
Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious. |
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Proud |
Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals. |
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Purse-proud |
Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches. |
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