plaats

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See also: plåts

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /plaːts/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: plaats
  • Rhymes: -aːts

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch plāetse, from Old French place.

Noun

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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
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Descendants
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  • 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

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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plaats

  1. inflection of plaatsen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Anagrams

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