plaats
See also: plåts
Dutch
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /plaːts/
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- Hyphenation: plaats
- Rhymes: -aːts
Etymology 1
    
From Middle Dutch plāetse, from Old French place.
Noun
    
plaats f (plural plaatsen, diminutive plaatsje n)
- place, position
- Synonym: plek
 
- A settlement; a town, city, village, hamlet or the like.
- A place, a location in a text.
- Space, especially free space (e.g. volume, area or storage space on a medium).
- Deze extensie neemt veel plaats in beslag.- This extension takes up a lot of space.
 
 
- (dialectal) A square, a plaza (paved open space of any size in a town or near a building).
- Synonym: plein
 
- (dialectal) A farm.
- Synonyms: boerderij, boerenplaats
 
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Etymology 2
    
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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