Place may refer to:

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
  • Place, a populated place, an area of human settlement
  • Incorporated place (see municipal corporation), a populated area with its own municipal government
  • Location (geography), an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space which has a name in an area

Placenames

  • Placé, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France
  • Plače, a small settlement in Slovenia
  • Place (Mysia), a town of ancient Mysia, Anatolia, now in Turkey
  • Place, New Hampshire, a location in the United States

Facilities and structures

  • Place, Fowey, 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
  • Prideaux Place, an Elizabethan mansion in Padstow, Cornwall, England
  • The Place (London), a dance and performance centre in London, England

People with the name

  • Place (surname), people with the surname Place

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

  • "Places" (Martin Solveig song), 2016
  • "Places" (Xenia Ghali song), 2016
  • Place, a song by Playboi Carti, from the album Whole Lotta Red

Albums

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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Place, Australian magazine merged into The Adelaide Review in 2008
  • r/place, a social experiment by Reddit for April Fool's Day
  • wplace, a global pixel art collaboration on a map of Earth
  • 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
  • The Place (film), a 2017 Italian film

Gambling

  • , in craps a bet that a point number will be rolled before a seven
  • Place, when betting on horse racing, wagering for a horse to win or finish 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

  • Location (disambiguation)
  • Locus (disambiguation), Latin for 'place'
  • Placement (disambiguation)
  • Plaice, a type of fish, misspelt as 'place'
  • Plas (disambiguation)
  • Platz (disambiguation)
  • Plaza
  • Laplace (disambiguation), including "la Place"