| means | (noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place"
place, position |
| means | (noun) a point or extent in space
location |
| means | (noun) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage"
position, spatial relation |
| means | (noun) an abstract mental location; "he has a special place in my thoughts"; "a place in my heart"; "a political system with no place for the less prominent groups"
place |
| means | (noun) the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
point |
| means | (noun) any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House"
place, property |
| means | (noun) a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"
topographic point, place, spot |
| means | (noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
locale, locus, venue |
| means | (noun) space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
way, room, elbow room |
| means | (noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
status, position |
| means | (noun) (nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty
station |
| means | (noun) the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome
locus |
| means | (noun) a particular situation; "If you were in my place what would you do?"
shoes, place |
| means | (noun) the position where a thing or person stands
stand |
| means | (noun) a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"
vicinity, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, neighborhood, locality |
| means | (noun) the general location where something is; "I questioned him about his whereabouts on the night of the crime"
whereabouts |
| means | (noun) position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"
rank, social status, social rank, social station |
| means | (noun) the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); "a good site for the school"
site, land site |
| means | (noun) physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides"
site, situation |
| means | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place
positioning, emplacement, placement, position, location, locating |
| means | (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"
lieu, position, stead, place |
| means | (noun) the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand; "a soldier manned the entrance post"; "a sentry station"
post, station |
| means | (noun) any location outside the Earth's atmosphere; "the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether"; "the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth"
space, outer space |
| means | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
occupation, line, line of work, job, business |
| means | (noun) relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
rank |
| means | (noun) social or financial or professional status or reputation; "of equal standing"; "a member in good standing"
standing |
| means | (noun) a point on the surface of the Earth
geographic point, geographical point |
| means | (noun) a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; "he developed a version of slot grammar"
slot |
| means | (noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation"
situation, position |
| means | (noun) a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it; "he found his niche in the academic world"
niche |
| means | (noun) an area reserved for some particular purpose; "the laboratory's floor space"
space |
| means | (noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group; "lumber of the highest grade"
grade, tier, level |
| means | (noun) standing or position on a scale
rating |
| means | (noun) the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position"
position |
| means | (noun) the set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions; "the locus of points equidistant from a given point is a circle"
locus |
| means | (noun) a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target"
locating, location, localisation, fix, localization |
| means | (noun) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country"
area, country |
| means | (noun) a blank area; "write your name in the space provided"
place, blank space, space |
| means | (noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
shop, store |
| means | (noun) a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made; "they shot the film on location in Nevada"
location |
| means | (noun) proper or designated social situation; "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station"
station, place |
| means | (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; "worldwide in distribution"; "the distribution of nerve fibers"; "in complementary distribution"
dispersion, distribution |
| means | (noun) proper or appropriate position or location; "a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen"
place |