(neuroscience, anatomy) A type of pyramidal neuron within the hippocampus that becomes active when an animal enters a particular place in its environment (known as the place field).

(euphemistic, obsolete) A place used for the business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.

(premodern medicine, obsolete) A body part where excess humors are expelled. / (obsolete) A place where the body is purged of waste: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.

(idiomatic) A place where business is conducted, such as an office or a single shop in a franchise.

(arithmetic) The value of a digit of numbers. For example, ones, tens, hundreds in the decimal counting; ones, sixes, thirty-sixes in the senary counting.

plural of noun of place

plural of place word

plural of place holder

plural of preposition of place

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see another, place. / (In the House of Commons) the House of Lords. / (In the House of Lords) the House of Commons.