plaats

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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)

  1. place, position
    Synonym: plek
  2. A settlement; a town, city, village, hamlet or the like.
  3. A place, a location in a text.
  4. 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.
  5. (dialectal) A square, a plaza (paved open space of any size in a town or near a building).
    Synonym: plein
  6. (dialectal) A farm.
    Synonyms: boerderij, boerenplaats
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: plaas
    • → English: plaas
    • → Northern Ndebele: ipulazi
    • → Shona: purazi
    • → Sotho: polasi
    • → Xhosa: ipulazi
    • → Zulu: ipulazi
  • Jersey Dutch: plâs
  • Negerhollands: plaats
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: plats, plas (dated)
  • → Papiamentu: plaas (dated)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

plaats

  1. inflection of plaatsen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

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