n An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
n (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
n An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
n Any area of the earth: a region.
n The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
n The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
n An area of the body, especially the skin.
n (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
n (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
n A location or position in space.
n A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
n (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
n (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
n A state of mind.
n (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
n A role or purpose; a station.
n The position of a contestant in a competition.
n (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
n The position as a member of a sports team.
n (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
n Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
n Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
n Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
v (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
v (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
v (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
v (transitive, passive) To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
v (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
v (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
v (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
v (transitive) To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar).
v (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
v (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
n A surname.