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Webster 1913 Edition

Palace

Pal′ace

(păl′ā̍s; 48)
,
Noun.
[OE.
palais
, F.
palais
, fr. L.
palatium
, fr.
Palatium
, one of the seven hills of Rome, on which Augustus had his residence. Cf.
Paladin
.]
1.
The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception.
Chaucer.
2.
The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage.
3.
Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house.
Palace car
.
See under
Car
.
–
Palace court
,
a court having jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. The court was abolished in 1849.
[Eng.]
Mozley & W.

Webster 1828 Edition

Palace

PAL'ACE

,
Noun.
[L. palatium.]
1.
A magnificent house in which an emperor, a king or other distinguished person resides; as an imperial palace; a royal palace; a pontifical palace; a ducal palace.
2.
A splendid place of residence; as the sun's bright palace.

Definition 2024

Palace

Palace

See also: palace and pałace

English

Proper noun

Palace

  1. (soccer) Crystal Palace Football Club, a football team from London.

palace

palace

See also: Palace and pałace

English

Palatine Hill, Domus Augustana (palace of Caesar Augustus)

Noun

palace ‎(plural palaces)

  1. Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.
  2. A large and lavishly ornate residence.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
      The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
  3. A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions.

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Verb

palace ‎(third-person singular simple present palaces, present participle palacing, simple past and past participle palaced)

  1. (archaic) To decorate or ornate.
    • 1921, Kenneth Morris, The Crest-Wave of Evolution:
      And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales; palaced marvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean.
    • 1874, Benj. N. Martin, Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader:
      May, with her green lap full of sprouting leaves and bright blossoms, her song-birds making the orchards and meadows vocal, and rippling streams and cultivated gardens; June, with full-blown roses and humming-bees, plenteous meadows and wide cornfields, with embattled lines rising thick and green; August, with reddened orchards and heavy-headed harvests of grain, October, with yellow leaves and swart shadows; December, palaced in snow, and idly whistling through his numb fingers;-all have their various charm; and in the rose-bowers of summer, and as we spread our hands before the torches of winter, we say joyfully, "Thou hast made all things beautiful in their time."

French

Etymology

From English palace.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /palas/

Noun

palace m ‎(plural palaces)

  1. luxury hotel

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French palais, which comes from Latin palātium, from Palātium, in reference to the Palatine Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome, where the aristocracy of the Roman Republic—and later, Roman emperors—built large, splendid residences. The name is ultimately either from Etruscan, the same source as Pales ‎(“Pales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock”), or Latin palus ‎(“stake; enclosure”).

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