Definition of Place name

1. Noun. The name by which a geographical place is known.

Exact synonyms: Toponym
Generic synonyms: Name
Group relationships: Troponomy, Troponymy

Definition of Place name

1. Noun. the name of a geographical place ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Place Name

place-kicker
place-kicking
place-name
place-names
place-worship
place an order
place bet
place card
place cards
place down
place holder
place in the sun
place kick
place kicks
place mat
place name (current term)
place names
place of articulation
place of birth
place of business
place of decimals
place of origin
place of worship
place on a pedestal
place one's cards on the table
place setting
place theory
place upright
place word
placeable

Literary usage of Place name

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1883)
"Never prophesy unless you know, is a safe proverb ; never explain a place-name until you have learnt all about it, is a companion rule for the philologist. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... Carnarvonshire, where the name of the Congregational chapel erected early in the igth century has altogether supplanted the original Celtic place-name ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"HADADRIMMON: According to the usual interpretation, a place name mentioned in ... The ancient and most modern commentators accept the word as a place name. ..."

4. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1905)
"... is derived) may have been due to the common tendency to assimilate the unintelligible first element of a place-name to the ..."

5. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"It is Belh-gilgal, ie, Beth-jerahmeel, a place- name to which we have already been introduced—the city intended was in the S. of Benjamin near Gibeah and ..."

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