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A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
James Fenton

Meaning of "palace" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PALACE

From Old French palais, from Latin PalātiumPalatine², the site of the palace of the emperors.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PALACE

palace  [ˈpælɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PALACE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Palace is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PALACE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

palace

Palace

A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word itself is derived from the Latin name Palātium, for Palatine Hill, the hill which housed the Imperial residences in Rome. In many parts of Europe, the term is also applied to ambitious private mansions of the aristocracy. Many historic palaces are now put to other uses such as parliaments, museums, hotels or office buildings. The word is also sometimes used to describe a lavishly ornate building used for public entertainment or exhibitions.

Definition of palace in the English dictionary

The first definition of palace in the dictionary is the official residence of a reigning monarch or member of a royal family. Other definition of palace is the official residence of various high-ranking church dignitaries or members of the nobility, as of an archbishop. Palace is also a large and richly furnished building resembling a royal palace.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PALACE


Alice
ˈælɪs
allice
ˈælɪs
allis
ˈælɪs
bliss
blɪs
bottomless
ˈbɒtəmlɪs
chalice
ˈtʃælɪs
Ellis
ˈɛlɪs
endless
ˈɛndlɪs
hemerocallis
ˌhɛmərəʊˈkælɪs
homeless
ˈhəʊmlɪs
hopeless
ˈhəʊplɪs
Indianapolis
ˌɪndɪəˈnæpəlɪs
malice
ˈmælɪs
Minneapolis
ˌmɪnɪˈæpəlɪs
necklace
ˈnɛklɪs
polis
ˈpɒlɪs
regardless
rɪˈɡɑːdlɪs
stainless
ˈsteɪnlɪs
Wallis
ˈvalɪs
wireless
ˈwaɪəlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PALACE

palabra
palace revolution
palaced
paladin
palaeanthropic
Palaearctic
palaebiologist
palaebiology
palaeethnological
palaeethnologist
palaeethnology
palaeoanthropic
palaeoanthropology
palaeoarchaeology
palaeobotanic
palaeobotanical
palaeobotanist
palaeobotany
Palaeocene
palaeoclimate

WORDS THAT END LIKE PALACE

Blenheim Palace
Buckingham Palace
Crystal Palace
enlace
fireplace
gin palace
Hampton Court Palace
Kensington Palace
lace
Lateran palace
marketplace
Nonsuch Palace
picture palace
place
pride of place
replace
Saint James´s Palace
take place
Wallace
workplace

Synonyms and antonyms of palace in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PALACE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «palace» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of palace

Translation of «palace» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PALACE

Find out the translation of palace to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of palace from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «palace» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

宫殿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

palacio
570 millions of speakers

English

palace
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

महल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قَصْرٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дворец
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

palácio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রাসাদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

palais
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Istana
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Palast
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

宮殿
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

궁전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Istana
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cung điện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரண்மனை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

राजवाडा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Saray
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

palazzo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pałac
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

палац
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

palat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παλάτι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

paleis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

palats
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

slott
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of palace

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PALACE»

The term «palace» is very widely used and occupies the 4.939 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PALACE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «palace» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «palace» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about palace

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10 QUOTES WITH «PALACE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word palace.
1
Rosecrans Baldwin
Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.
2
Emily Bronte
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
3
John Donne
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
4
Frederic William Farrar
There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.
5
James Fenton
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
6
Neon Hitch
I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded - the closest thing to a caravan I could find!
7
Vanilla Ice
When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
8
Anselm Kiefer
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
9
Stephen Kinzer
Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.
10
Christopher Love
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PALACE»

Discover the use of palace in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to palace and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Glass Palace
The Glass Palace Begins With The Shattering Of The Kingdom Of Burma, And Tells The Story Of A People, A Fortune, And A Family And Its Fate.
Ghosh, Amitav, 2008
2
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of ...
Jennet Conant captures all the exhilaration and drama of those perilous twenty-seven months at Los Alamos, a secret city cut off from the rest of society, ringed by barbed wire, where Oppenheimer and his young recruits lived as virtual ...
Jennet Conant, 2007
3
A Guide to the Palace of Nestor: Mycenaean Sites in Its ...
The classic guide to the Palace of Nestor, now illustrated in full colour, including Piet de Jong's watercolours.
Carl William Blegen, Marion Rawson, Jack L. Davis, 2001
4
Sennacherib's "Palace Without Rival" at Nineveh
'This is an exceptionally fine book, one sure to be a landmark in Near Eastern archaeology.
John Malcolm Russell, 1991
5
No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological ...
This is a story told through the clash of personalities, such as South African statesman Jan Smuts, who saw in the UN a means to protect the old imperial and racial order; Raphael Lemkin and Joseph Schechtman, Jewish intellectuals at odds ...
Mark Mazower, 2009
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The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace
On the Hatḥa Yoga tradition based on age old practice in Mysore Palace, with illustrations of asanas from the Yoga section of Śrītattvanidhi by K{u0072}sṇạrāja Vadẹyara, III, Maharaja of Mysore, fl. 1799-1868; includes English ...
N. E. Sjoman, 1999
7
The puzzle palace: a report on America's most secret agency
Describes and assesses the activities of the National Security Agency, the nation's most secret government agency--established in secrecy, many times larger than the CIA, and in control of a huge budget and a vast technology
James Bamford, 1983
8
The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, ...
Innovative and sophisticated, The Internationalization of Palace Wars offers much needed concrete information about the transnational processes that shape our world.
Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth, 2010
9
Palace: My Life in the Royal Family of Monaco
A member of the royal family tells the true story of a family rent by jealousy, suspicion, and duplicity, with penetrating portraits of Princess Grace, Prince Rainier, and Princess Caroline
Christian De Massy, Baron De Massey, Charles Higham, 1989
10
The Ice Palace
Siss's struggle with her fidelity to the memory of a friend, the strange frozen world of the waterfall, and the description of Unn's fatal exploration of the ice palace are described in prose of a lyrical economy that ranks among the ...
Tarjei Vesaas, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PALACE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term palace is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Live report: Crystal Palace vs Sporting Lisbon
Hello and welcome to the Cape Town Stadium where Sporting Lisbon take on Crystal Palace in what promises to be an exciting Cape Town ... «Citizen, Jul 15»
2
Shania Twain brings the hits, polish in Palace show
This is the year when the 1990s decided to pay country music a visit — with pizzazz and pyrotechnics intact. Five months after Garth Brooks hit ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
3
Manchester United's flair and Crystal Palace's savvy lead way in …
That honour might belong to Alan Pardew at Palace, who has signed ... United win the entertainment award but Palace, living in the real world ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Yannick Bolasie wants Crystal Palace exit amid Spurs, West Ham …
CRYSTAL PALACE flying winger Yannick Bolasie wants to leave Selhurst Park amid interest from a number of other Premier League clubs. «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Midwest Traveler: Beyond the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD
Lisa Meyers McClintick, Special to the Star Tribune Murals change every year on the Mitchell Corn Palace, seen here prior to a $7.2 million ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
6
Cancer survivor launches 'Sliderider' at Alexandra Palace
14-year-old Alexandria Batchelor opened a giant waterslide at London's Alexandria Palace this weekend, run by Cancer Research UK. «ITV News, Jul 15»
7
Opaque sale of Savarin Palace sparks lawsuit
Savarin, an 18th century baroque building on Na Příkopě street, is the source of dispute between Czech real estate company Flow East on one ... «Prague Post, Jul 15»
8
Report: Crystal Palace preparing Fabricio Coloccini move
Pardew now wants the centre-back to join him at Palace as Coloccini faces an uncertain future with the Magpies following the arrival of Steve ... «Sports Mole, Jul 15»
9
Unwanted gift from Stalin, Warsaw Palace of Culture turns 60
In this photo taken Monday, July 20, 2015, cars are parked in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. The building was a ... «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
10
No need to reopen Mamasapano probe – Palace
MANILA, Philippines - Malacañang clarified yesterday that the investigation into the Jan. 25 Mamasapano incident is going on and thus there is ... «Philippine Star, Jul 15»

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