<OL TYPE="1"><LI>place, any portion or space marked off, as it were from surrounding space<OL TYPE="a"><LI>an inhabited place, as a city, village, district<LI>a place (passage) in a book</OL><LI>metaph.<OL TYPE="a"><LI>the condition or station held by one in any company or assembly<LI>opportunity, power, occasion for acting</OL></OL>