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place
noun as in location with purpose, function
noun as in position, rank
noun as in job, employment
Strong matches
appointment, connection, occupation, post, profession, trade
noun as in duty, role
Strongest match
Strong matches
affair, charge, concern, function, prerogative, responsibility
verb as in locate, situate
verb as in order, sort
verb as in identify, recognize
Strong matches
associate, determine, diagnose, distinguish, finger, indicate, know, nail, peg, pinpoint, remember, spot, tell
Weak matches
determinate, figure out, put one's finger on, set in context
Example Sentences
Not only did they use them, but they could go to women setting up a new place to live.
There should be room for both views — and a time and a place to air them.
The amaro is an aromatic snapshot of a place I loved, and it has a powerful pull on my memory.
We wanted to make sure that we had something in place that more young players that thought this was right for them, they could take advantage of it.
I realized they were going places when Renee revealed to me that she and Willie were texting during our post-date interview.
The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.
“This is the only place in the souk you can buy safety pins,” he said.
He hasn't bothered to visit Iguala, the place where the students were abducted and killed.
A place that has multiplied success for generation after generation of its children.
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.
This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
He looked strangely out of place in the dusty combat uniform.
The associations of place recall her strange interview with Mr. Longcluse but a few months before.
As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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