palace
part of speech
noun (a palace, palaces)
meaning for a pupil
1) A very large, grand house where a king, queen, president or bishop lives. tree →
2) A big, splendid building for public fun: a picture palace, an ice palace. tree →
3) (informal) Any house that is very fine: «Your new house is a palace!» tree →
sense in the lessons
In history and stories palaces are where kings and queens live, with throne rooms and guards. In everyday life children visit palaces like Buckingham Palace. «The Palace» can mean the royal family's office in news. Phrases: Buckingham Palace, royal palace.
examples
- The queen lived in a palace with hundreds of rooms. tree →
- We watched the guards change outside Buckingham Palace. tree →
- The princess ran through the palace gardens. tree →
- The palace has 775 rooms. tree →
- Their new house is a palace compared to our flat. tree →
- The Palace said the king was well. tree →
- He reached the palace at sunrise. tree →
note
Countable. Adjective: palatial (like a palace). Capital letter in names: Buckingham Palace. Not the same as «palette» (painter's board) or «palate» (roof of the mouth).
In the corpora
- At the bottom are the facts: dates, official statements from the Palace, things filmed for everyone to see.
- The Great Vine at Hampton Court Palace near London was planted in 1768 and still gives grapes.
- The Wife begs him to bring it back; he stamps again, and the Palace comes down without a bump.
- The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, but the government, parliament and the king's working palace are in The Hague.
- The Forbidden City in Beijing was the palace of Chinese emperors from 1420 until 1912, and it is now a museum.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «palace» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.