location

location
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Place where something is
Nouns
1. location, localization, lodgment, stowage, collocation, packing, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation; placement, setting, insertion; ground zero. See region.
2. place, situation, locality, locale, site, depot, position, post, stand, neighborhood, environment, whereabouts, bearings, orientation; attitude, aspect, viewpoint, standpoint, spot; colony. See abode
3. colonization, domestication, habitation, naturalization.
Verbs
1. place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set [down], posit, plunk down, slap down, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, park, double-park, install, house, stow, establish, set up; fix, pin, root, graft, plant, lay down, deposit; cradle; moor, anchor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; vest, replace, put back; billet on, quarter upon, saddle with, load, freight, put up.
2. inhabit, domesticate (see abode).
Adjectives — located, placed, situate[d], ensconced, embedded, rooted, domesticated, vested in.
Adverbs — here, there, here and there; hereabout[s], thereabout[s], where-about[s]; in place.
Phrases — a place for everything and everything in its place.
Quotations — Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in (Robert Frost), All places are distant from heaven alike (Robert Burton).
Antonyms, see displacement.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The act of locating]
Syn. finding, discovering, searching out; see locating .
2. [A position]
Syn. place, spot, section; see position 1 .
3. [A site]
Syn. situation, place, scene; see area 2 , neighborhood 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
place, spot, site, position, point, zone, locale, locality, area, neighborhood, district, neck of the woods.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. One's place and direction relative to one's surroundings: bearing (often used in plural), orientation, position, situation. See PLACE. 2. A particular geographic area: locale, locality, place. See PLACE. 3. The place where a person or thing is located: emplacement, locus, placement, position, site, situation. See PLACE. 4. A particular portion of space chosen for something: locus, place, point, spot. See PLACE.

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