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▸ noun: An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
▸ noun: (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
▸ noun: An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
▸ noun: Any area of the earth: a region.
▸ noun: The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
▸ noun: The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
▸ noun: An area of the body, especially the skin.
▸ noun: (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
▸ noun: (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
▸ noun: A location or position in space.
▸ noun: A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
▸ noun: (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
▸ noun: A state of mind.
▸ noun: (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
▸ noun: (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
▸ noun: A role or purpose; a station.
▸ noun: The position of a contestant in a competition.
▸ noun: (horse racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
▸ noun: The position as a member of a sports team.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
▸ noun: Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
▸ noun: Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
▸ noun: Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
▸ verb: (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
▸ verb: (ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
▸ verb: (intransitive, motor racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
▸ verb: (transitive) To vouch for someone's alibi.
▸ verb: (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
▸ verb: (transitive, in collocations) To make.
▸ verb: (transitive) To bet.
▸ verb: (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
▸ verb: (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
▸ verb: (transitive) To assign (more or less value) to something.
▸ noun: A surname.
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