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      TAKE PLACE meaning: 1. to happen: 2. to happen: 3. to...

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  4. The meaning of TAKE PLACE is happen, occur. How to use take place in a sentence.

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    c.1200, \"space, dimensional extent, room, area,\" from Old French place \"place, spot\" (12c.) and directly from Medieval Latin placea \"place, spot,\" from Latin platea \"courtyard, open space; broad way, avenue,\" from Greek plateia (hodos) \"broad (way),\" fem. of platys \"broad\" (see plaice). Replaced Old English stow and stede. From mid-13c....

    Also from the same Latin source are Italian piazza, Catalan plassa, Spanish plaza, Middle Dutch plaetse, Dutch plaats, German Platz, Danish plads, Norwegian plass. Wide application in English covers meanings that in French require three words: place, lieu, and endroit. Cognate Italian piazza and Spanish plaza retain more of the etymological sense.

    To take place \"happen\" is from mid-15c. To know (one's) place is from c.1600; hence figurative expression put (someone) in his or her place (1855). Place of worship attested from 1689, originally in official papers and in reference to assemblies of dissenters from the Church of England. All over the place \"in disorder\" is attested from 1923.

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  6. take place. To happen, to occur. "take place" is a correct and usable phrase in written English. You can use it to describe when something occurs or happens, usually in reference to an event. Example: The town fair will take place on the third weekend of June. Superheroics must take place. might take place.

  7. take place. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English take place to happen, especially after being planned or arranged The next meeting will take place on Thursday. Talks between the two sides are still taking place. Major changes are taking place in society. → place Examples from the Corpus take place • The ball took place in the ...

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