showplace

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noun

A building or estate shown for its beauty or noteworthiness.

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Meanings

nounshowplace (plural showplaces)

plural showplaces

  1. A building or estate shown for its beauty or noteworthiness.

    The manager showed him over the vaults and strong-rooms, explaining the various precautions taken to render the guile or force of man impotent: […] "The Safe" was a showplace and its directors held that no harm could come of displaying a strong hand.

    1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados
  2. A location kept for display only.

Origin

From show + place.

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APA

showplace. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/showplace

MLA

“showplace.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/showplace. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “showplace,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/showplace.

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