pal|ace

pal|ace
pal|ace «PAL ihs», noun.
1. a) a grand house for a king, queen, bishop, or other exalted personage to live in: »

As Her Serene Highness…she is expected to live in the great 200-room, yellow-stone palace overlooking the Mediterranean (Newsweek).

 SYNONYM(S): castle. b) British. the official residence of an archbishop or bishop within his cathedral city: »

Lambeth Palace.

2. a very fine house or building: »

The palaces of the rich dot the coastline.

3. a more or less imposing or pretentious place of entertainment: »

an old movie palace.

4. an official building, especially one of imposing size (often by extension from use as in French and Italian): »

the palace of justice.

╂[< Old French palais < Latin Palātium (originally) the Palatine Hill in Rome. site of the emperor's palace]

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