Palace
['pælɪs] or ['pæləs]
Definition
(noun.) official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign).
(noun.) a large and stately mansion.
(noun.) a large ornate exhibition hall.
(noun.) the governing group of a kingdom; 'the palace issued an order binding on all subjects'.
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Definition
(n.) The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception.
(n.) The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage.
(n.) Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Stately mansion.
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Definition
n. the house of a king or a queen: a very large and splendid house: a bishop's official residence.—n. Pal′ace-car a sumptuously furnished railway-car.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Wandering through a palace and noting its grandeur, signifies that your prospects are growing brighter and you will assume new dignity. To see and hear fine ladies and men dancing and conversing, denotes that you will engage in profitable and pleasing associations. For a young woman of moderate means to dream that she is a participant in the entertainment, and of equal social standing with others, is a sign of her advancement through marriage, or the generosity of relatives. This is often a very deceitful and misleading dream to the young woman of humble circumstances; as it is generally induced in such cases by the unhealthy day dreams of her idle, empty brain. She should strive after this dream, to live by honest work, and restrain deceitful ambition by observing the fireside counsels of mother, and friends. See Opulence.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A fine and costly residence particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field or wayside. There is progress.
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Examples
- You do jest; zis is not ze palace; we come there directly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For an hour I have heard the sounds of conflict within the palace. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- We hastened to the palace of the Protectorate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- No one could tell from the bodies of these wounded men he would leave in beds at the Palace, that they were Russians. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had three wounded Russians in the Palace Hotel for whom he was responsible. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- An earthquake-proof steel palace for the Crown Prince of Japan is one of the modern applications of steel in architecture. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We came upon her but a short distance from the palace. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The order and convenience of a palace are no less essential to its beauty, than its mere figure and appearance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Ten minutes after it touched at the palace a message called me to the council chamber, which I found filling with the members of that body. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The thern spies were not in the palace of John Carter for nothing, said Kantos Kan to me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The monkey was killed, and an order made, that no such animal should be kept about the palace. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The doctor said: Ah, the palace of the Louvre--beautiful, beautiful edifice! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We arrived at Milan, and stationed ourselves in the Vice-Roy's palace. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When I returned to my palace I found that the rumor already had reached Dejah Thoris, so I told her all that I had heard. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In the guard-room of my palace are many fine trappings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I entered one of the palaces, and opened the door of a magnificent saloon. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Beneath the crimes and disorders of the palaces, the life of the city and country ran a similar course. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first impulse is to abolish all lobster palaces, melodramas, yellow newspapers, and sentimentally erotic novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The sultry air impregnated with dust, the heat and smoke of burning palaces, palsied my limbs. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- If this were set in the midst of the tempest of pictures one finds in the vast galleries of the Roman palaces, would I think it so handsome? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Few palaces exist in any city that are so exquisite in design, so rich in art, so costly in material, so graceful, so beautiful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Our habitations were palaces our food was ready stored in granaries--there was no need of labour, no inquisitiveness, no restless desire to get on. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Superb and the City of Palaces are names which Genoa has held for centuries. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Pleasure in our cities has become tied to lobster palaces, adventure to exalted murderers, romance to silly, mooning novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mo dern excavations have demonstrated that the sides or the corners of the temples and palaces of Assyria and Babylonia were directed to the four cardinal points of the compass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Versailles, under a score of names, is starred in every volume of B?deker, and the tourist gapes in their palaces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am afraid I study the gondolier's marvelous skill more than I do the sculptured palaces we glide among. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Genoa and her rival, Venice, were the great trading seaports of this time; their noble palaces, their lordly paintings, still win our admiration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm, and the snowy mountains, the palaces of nature, were not changed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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