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Definition: Palace |
PalaceNoun1. A large and stately mansion. 2. The governing group of a kingdom; "the palace issued an order binding on all subjects". 3. A large ornate exhibition hall. 4. Official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "palace" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Palace \Pal"ace\, noun. [from Old English expression palais, French palais, from the Latin expression palatium, from Palatium, one of the seven hills of Rome, which Augustus had his residence. Compare to Paladin.]. (references) |
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Satire | PALACE, 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. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Bible | Palace Used now only of royal dwellings, although originally meaning simply (as the Latin word palatium, from which it is derived, shows) a building surrounded by a fence or a paling. In the Authorized Version there are many different words so rendered, presenting different ideas, such as that of citadel or lofty fortress or royal residence (Neh. 1:1; Dan. 8:2). It is the name given to the temple fortress (Neh. 2:8) and to the temple itself (1 Chr. 29:1). It denotes also a spacious building or a great house (Dan. 1:4; 4:4, 29: Esther 1:5; 7:7), and a fortified place or an enclosure (Ezek. 25:4). Solomon's palace is described in 1 Kings 7:1-12 as a series of buildings rather than a single great structure. Thirteen years were spent in their erection. This palace stood on the eastern hill, adjoining the temple on the south. In the New Testament it designates the official residence of Pilate or that of the high priest (Matt. 26:3, 58, 69; Mark 14:54, 66; John 18:15). In Phil. 1:13 this word is the rendering of the Greek praitorion, meaning the praetorian cohorts at Rome (the life-guard of the Caesars). Paul was continually chained to a soldier of that corps (Acts 28:16), and hence his name and sufferings became known in all the praetorium. The "soldiers that kept" him would, on relieving one another on guard, naturally spread the tidings regarding him among their comrades. Some, however, regard the praetroium (q.v.) as the barrack within the palace (the palatium) of the Caesars in Rome where a detachment of these praetorian guards was stationed, or as the camp of the guards placed outside the eastern walls of Rome. "In the chambers which were occupied as guard-rooms," says Dr. Manning, "by the praetorian troops on duty in the palace, a number of rude caricatures are found roughly scratched upon the walls, just such as may be seen upon barrack walls in every part of the world. Amongst these is one of a human figure nailed upon a cross. To add to the 'offence of the cross,' the crucified one is represented with the head of an animal, probably that of an ass. Before it stands the figure of a Roman legionary with one hand upraised in the attitude of worship. Underneath is the rude, misspelt, ungrammatical inscription, Alexamenos worships his god. It can scarcely be doubted that we have here a contemporary caricature, executed by one of the praetorian guard, ridiculing the faith of a Christian comrade." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | 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. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Palace originally meant a dwelling on the Palatine Hill of Rome. This hill was so called from Pales, a pastoral deity, whose festival was celebrated on April 21st, the "birthday of Rome," to commemorate the day when Romulus, The wolf-child, drew the first furrow at the foot of the hill, and thus laid the foundation of the "Roma Quadrata," the most ancient part of the city. On this hill Augustus built his mansion, and his example was followed by Tiberius and Nero. Under the last-named emperor, all private houses on the hill had to be pulled down to make room for "The Golden House," called the Palatium, the palace of palaces. It continued to be the residence of the Roman emperors to the time of Alexander Severus. (See Pallace.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The Royal Chateau of Fontainebleau, the largest of the French royal chateaux, introduced to France the Italian Mannerist style in interior decoration and in gardens, and transformed them in the translation. It is located in the city of Fontainebleau, in the Seine-et-Marne département.
Known as the "Fontainebleau style" of interior decoration, it combined sculpture, metalwork, painting, stucco and woodwork, and outdoors the patterned garden parterre. The chateau as it is today is the work of many monarchs, building on a structure of Francois I. The building is ranged round a series of courts.
The older château was already used in the latter part of the 12th century by Louis VII, for whom Thomas a Becket consecrated the chapel. Fontainebleau was a favourite residence of Philip Augustus and Louis IX. The creator of the present edifice was Francois I, under whom the architect Gilles le Breton erected most of the buildings of the Cour Ovale, including the Porte Dorée, its southern entrance.
The Gallery of King Francois I, with its frescoes framed in stucco by Rosso between 1522 and 1540, was the first great decorated gallery built in France. The Salle des Fetes, in the reign of Henri II, was decorated by the Italian Mannerist painters, Francesco Primaticcio and Nicolo dell’ Abbate.
Another campaign of extensive construction was undertaken by King Henri II and Catherine de' Medici, who commissioned architects Philibert Delorme and Jean Bullant.
To the Fontainebleau of Francois I and Henri II, King Henri IV added the Court that carries his name, the Cour des Princes, with the adjoining Galerie de Diane de Poitiers and the Galerie des Cerfs, used as a library. He pierced the wooded park with a 1200m canal (which can be fished today) and ordered the planting of pines, elms and fruit trees.
Three hundred years later the chateau had fallen into disrepair and during the French Revolution many of the original furnishings were stolen. At the beginning of the 1800s, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, transformed the Chateau de Fontainebleau into a symbol of his grandeur, as an alternative to Versailles, with its Bourbon connotations. At Fontainebleau Napoleon bade farewell to his Old Guard and went into exile in 1814. With modifications of the chateau's structure, including the cobblestone entrance wide enough for his carriage, Napoleon helped make the chateau the place that visitors see today.
Philip the Fair, Henry III and Louis XIII were all born in the palace, and the first of these kings died there. Christina of Sweden lived there for years, following her abdication in 1654. In 1685 Fontainebleau saw the signing of the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revoked the Edict of Nantes (1598). Royal guests of the Bourbon kings were housed at Fontainebleau: Peter the Great of Russia and Christian VII of Denmark, and so, under Napoleon was Pope Pius VII— in 1804 when he came to consecrate the emperor Napoleon, and in 1812—1814, when he was Napoleon's prisoner.
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Crystal Palace Football Club was formed in 1905, with its headquarters at Crystal Palace in Sydenham. The team played in the Southern League until the early 1920s, when they were promoted to Division Three of the Football League.The club was forced to relocate from their original headquarters in 1918, and eventually settled at their present home, Selhurst Park, in 1924.
Nicknamed "The Glaziers" - a reference to their original home in the shadow of Joseph Paxton's enormous glass exhibition hall - Palace remained in the lower divisions of the Football League until the 1960s. By 1969, the club was a member of the First Division.
Unfortunately, the only constant in the life of a Palace fan is change, and "The Eagles" - as they were now known - plummetted back to the Third Division in the early 1970s. Though FA Cup glory beckoned for a while, it wasn't until the arrival of former Chelsea star Terry Venables as manager that Palace's fortunes took a change for the better. Venables took the team back up to Division One for two seasons from 1979 to 1981, before leaving for more glamorous shores than Selhurst could offer.
In 1981, Ron Noades became chairman of Crystal Palace - now no longer the "team of the Eighties" and suffering dwindling support and mounting debts. Noades appointed another former top flight player, Steve Coppell as manager in 1984. Coppell and Noades began rebuilding the team and the club, and over the next seven years, Palace enjoyed mounting success and a growing reputation for nurturing intelligent, skilful young players such as Ian Wright, Mark Bright, Chris Coleman, Andy Gray and John Salako. The Wright/Bright partnership up front was instrumental in taking Palace to the 1990 FA Cup Final and holding the great Manchester United to a draw. The replay resulted in yet another win for Manchester United.
Cup glory followed in 1991, when the Eagles won the ZDS cup. Injuries, selloffs and transfers over the next couple of years culminated in former Holmesdale End favourite Ian Wright scoring the winning goal for Arsenal on the last day of the 1992/93 season.
While Palace managed to maintain a toehold in the Nationwide First Division - occasionally moving up into the new Premier League (and then straight back down again in 1995, up again in 1997, back down again almost as quickly), the club was bedevilled by financial difficulties and frequent coaching staff changes during the 1990s.
Following vociferous calls for change and much wrangling, Noades sold the club to Mark Goldberg in 1998. Under the new chairman, Terry Venables returned to manage the coaching team. However, the club's fortunes took yet another turn for the worse, and by the end of the season, Venables had gone (to be replaced by Coppell - again) and the club was in administration. Despite dire financial straits and the enforced sale of many of its established stars, Palace's young team battled on to retain a respectable finishing position in Division One.
Former mobile phone tycoon and lifelong fan Simon Jordan took over the club from the administrators in July 2000. Jordan replaced Coppell with former manager Alan Smith, and supporters looked forward to a new era. Unfortunately, it was not to be (told you life as a Palace fan wasn't easy) and Palace just about retained their place in the first division.
Former Manchester United captain Steve Bruce was appointed manager in 2001, and things looked quite good again for about six months, as Palace fought their way into the upper half of Division One. Then Bruce resigned to take up the manager's job at Birmingham City. In a bizarre jobswap, former Birmingham City manager Trevor Francis took over at Selhurst Park, and Palace struggled on as usual. Once again FA Cup glory beckoned, but the Eagles lost out to Venables' Leeds United in the fifth round.
The 2002-3 season saw former Palace star Steve Kember put on the manager's sheepskin jacket once again, following on from his last-minute caretaker's appointment after Francis's departure. A run of desperately mediocre luck has also seen Palace slip to 19th place in Division One and the departure of Kember.
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A palace is an important house, usually a townhouse, of a royal or noble family; later, and by extension, the executive residence of a nation.
The word palace to describe a royal residence comes from the name of one of the seven hills of Rome, the Palatine Hill. The Palatine was according to tradition where Romulus and Remus founded Rome, and long after the city grew to the seven hills the Palatine remained a desirable residential area. Augustus Caesar lived there in a purposefully modest house only set apart from his neighbors by the two laurel trees planted to flank the front door as a sign of triumph granted by the Senate. His descendants, however, enlarged the house and grounds over and over until it took up the hill top. The word Palatium came to mean the residence of the emperor rather than the neighborhood on top of the hill.
Many extant palaces have been transformed for other uses, such as parliaments or museums.
List of Palaces
Some palaces and former palaces include:
Austria
- Schönbrunn Palace
China
- Forbidden City
England
- Addington Palace
- Palace of Beaulieu
- Blenheim Palace
- Bridewell Palace
- Hampton Court Palace
- Lambeth Palace
- Palace of Placentia
- Richmond Palace
- Official royal residences in London:
- Palace of Westminster - Royal residence from 1049 until 1530
- Palace of Whitehall - Royal residence from 1530 until 1698
- Kensington Palace - Royal residence since 1689
- St James's Palace - Royal residence from 1702 until 1837
- Clarence House - Royal residence since 1830
- Buckingham Palace - Royal residence since 1837
- Winchester Palace
France
- Élysée Palace
- Palace of Versailles
- Louvre
Russia
- Winter Palace
Scotland
- Holyrood Palace
Spain
- Royal Palace of Madrid
- El Escorial
Turkey
- Topkapi Palace
Japan
- Kokyo
United States
- White House
Vatican City
- Papal apartments of the Vatican City
List of Non-residential Palaces
Some large impressive buildings which were not meant to be residences, but are nonetheless called palaces, include:
- Crystal Palace (England)
- Galeria degli Uffizi (Italy)
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The Palace of the People (Palatul Poporului) in Bucharest, Romania is reputed to be the world's second largest building (after The Pentagon), measuring 270m by 240m, 86m high, and 92m under ground. It is 12 stories tall, and has four additional underground levels.Built on the site of a hill variously know as Spirei Hill, Uranus Hill, or Arsenal Hill, which was razed for the project, the building anchors the west end of Unirii Boulevard and the Centru Civic. Construction began in 1984. The building was originally to be known as the House of the Republic (Casa Republicii) and was intended to serve as a palace for Nicolae Ceauşescu. However, the project was just nearing completion at the time of his 1989 overthrow and execution.
Officially renamed first as the House of the People (Casa Poporului) and later as the Palace of Parliament (Palatul Parliamentului), the building is most commonly referred to by Bucharesteans as the Palace of the People (Palatul Poporului). It is also, not uncommonly, known as the Madman's House (Casa Nebunului).
The building is constructed entirely of materials of Romanian origin; it is reported that during the latter years of construction, this building and the Centru Civic in general created such a massive demand for Romanian marble that tombstones throughout the country had to be made from other materials.
Since 1994, the building has housed Romania's parliament; it also contains a massive array of miscellaneous conference halls, salons, etc., used for a wide variety of other purposes.
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The Palace of Versailles (commonly called Versailles) is a royal chateau, located near the city of Versailles, France. The palace was initially constructed as a hunting lodge, in 1624. In 1660, Louis XIV decided to convert into a palace; this was completed by 1688. The architect was André Le Nôtre.Louis XIV, in building the palace, was intent on outdoing Vaux-le-Vicomte. Versailles became the home of the French nobility and the location of the royal court. Louis XIV, himself, lived here -- there were government offices here; as well as the homes of thousands of individuals. By insisting that nobles spend time at Versailles, Louis kept them from countering his efforts to centralize the French government.
While the Palace was grand and luxurious, it was also impossibly expensive to maintain. Historians estimate that maintaining the Palace, including the care and feeding of its staff and the Royal Family, consumed as much as 25% of the entire national income of the country of France.
After Louis XIV, several smaller buildings were added to the Versailles area by Louis XV and Louis XVI including the Grand Trianon, the Petit Trianon, and the Hamlet of Marie Antoinette.
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Synonym: PalaceSynonym: castle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple. |
Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse. | |
Ship | Man of war; (combatant); transport, tender, storeship; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound. |
Temple | Parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe; Vatican; bishop's palace; Lambeth. |
Veracity | Phrase: di il vero a affronterai il diavolo; Dichtung und Wahrheit; esto quod esse videris; magna est veritas et praevalet; "that golden key that opes the palace of eternity"; veritas odium parit; veritatis simplex oratio est; verite sans peur. |
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Screenplays | To His Majesty, King Jaffe Joffer, The Royal Palace, Zamunda (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield) The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true (The Court Jester; writing credit: Melvin Frank and Norman Panama.) You took your father's armor, ran away from home, impersonated a soldier, deceived your commanding officer, destroyed my palace and you have saved us all. (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao) You're one of those guards like at Buckingham Palace! I can do whatever I want, and you can't do anything (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You on the motorcycleYou two girlsIt'sladies night at the Palace Hotel Ballroom (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd ; John Landis) | |
Lyrics | Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) The palace guards are all sleeping (After The Rain Has Fallen; performing artist: Sting) | |
Clever | One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lollipop Palace (1973) Pleasure Palace (1973) The Neon Palace (1971) Kitty's Pleasure Palace (1971) The Ice Palace (1971) | |
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 | Apollo 11 Astronaust Welcomed to Royal Palace in Brussels, Belgium. Credit: NASA. |  | The sultan's palace at Maimbung, Jolo After the typhoon. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Test of a net with two screens. Left to right: Prince Albert I of Monaco; Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria; and G. Saige, archivist of the Monaco Palace. Plate VII, print 1. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | The Summer Palace at Beijing. Credit: Small World. |
 | Police massed to stop potential demonstrations near the Presidential Palace in downtown Lima, Peru. Credit: Small World. |  | U. S. Army Debarkation Hospital No. 3, Grand Central Palace, New York City. : Typical recreation room. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. Army Mobile Hospital No. 39, Paris, France. : General view of exposition in Grand Palace of Flying Hospital Unit by French Government for the American Expeditionary Force. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Main entrance of the Cecilienhof Palace, where the Potsdam "Big Three" meetings were held. Flags of the USSR, United States and Great Britain are flying over the entranceway. Soviet officers are serving as guards. Photographed during the conference. Credit: NAVY. |
 | View into the courtyard of Cecilienhof Palace, where the Potsdam "Big Three" meetings were held. Photographed during the conference from inside the palace entranceway. The large red floral star in the courtyard had been planted by the Soviets. Credit: NAVY. |  | Canal view with boats, campanile of San Marcos and Doges' Palace, Venice, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Kwanghwamun Palace, Seoul" by J David Eisenberg Commentary: "View outside Kwanghwamun palace in Seoul." | "Rome - Palatine Flavius Palace" by Rc Pause Commentary: "Flavius Palace on Palatine. <br>Rome feb03 <br> <br>." |
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Emily Bronte | Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. |
Horace | Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. |
Jean De La Bruyere | The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. |
John Bunyan | A very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful. |
John Donne | Be your own palace, or the world is your jail. |
The Koran | Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1896) |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | THEY landed, and were at once conducted to the Palace. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He bought a palace to live in the barn |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The palace Flourish |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The mason who finishes the cornice of the palace returns at night perchance to a hut not so good as a wigwam |
Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace! |
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Children | Morocco | On November 16, after the fourth annual "handisports" games for athletes with disabilities, the King hosted a reception in their honor at the royal palace in Rabat to increases awareness and acceptance of persons with disabilities. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Angola | On January 24, 25 members of the small opposition Party for Democratic Support and Progress of Angola (PADPA) staged a hunger strike in front of the presidential palace to protest the lack of government accountability and transparency. (references) |
Paraguay | The law restricts demonstrations in Asuncion to certain times and places, and specifically prohibits meetings or demonstrations in front of the presidential palace and outside military or police barracks. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | Under circumstances that have never been fully explained, on October 1, 1965, PKI sympathizers within the military, including elements from Sukarno's palace guard, occupied key locations in Jakarta and kidnapped and murdered six senior generals. (references) |
Honduras | In October 1955--after two authoritarian administrations and a general strike by banana workers on the north coast in 1954--young military reformists staged a palace coup that installed a provisional junta and paved the way for constituent assembly elections in 1957. This assembly appointed Dr. Ramon Villeda Morales as president and transformed itself into a national legislature with a 6-year term. (references) | |
Taiwan | One of Taiwan's greatest attractions is the Palace Museum, which houses over 650,000 pieces of Chinese bronze, jade, calligraphy, painting, and porcelain. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | The chief, who was a member of the Council of State under the former NDC Government, was not home at the time, and the security officers forced a local sub-chief to grant them to access to the palace. (references) |
Lesotho | In 1999 the Government began investigating the 1994 palace coup and the alleged involvement of military personnel in the killing of the Deputy Prime Minister; 23 members of the LDF had been arrested and charged with involvement in the killing. (references) | |
Lesotho | During the 1998 opposition palace protest, violence between protesters and police, between antagonistic political factions, and between policemen and soldiers resulted in nine fatalities, including one police officer and eight civilians--four of whom were opposition supporters--and numerous injuries. (references) | |
Political Economy | Morocco | The Border Police and the National Security Police are departments of the Ministry of Interior; the Judicial Police falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice; and the Royal Gendarmerie reports to the Palace. (references) |
Ecuador | The quasi-constitutional removal of President Bucaram from office by Congress in February 1997 was accomplished after peaceful protests forced him from the Presidential Palace and was later approved in a nationwide referendum. (references) | |
Ecuador | Again on January 21, 2000, a group of indigenous and military protesters occupied the National Congress, marched on the Presidential Palace, and -- after the Armed Forces refused to protect then-President Mahuad -- Mahuad abandoned the Palace. (references) | |
Travel | Oman | The major hotels patronized by western business visitors and tourists in the Muscat area are: the Hyatt (a five-star beach front property, close to the U.S. Embassy, and with luxurious rooms and excellent restaurants), the Al Bustan Palace Hotel (five star, on the beach, a "must see" site), Muscat Intercontinental (convenient to most ministries and on the beach); Sheraton (overlooking the Ruwi central business district, with complete business center facilities); Muscat Holiday Inn and the Radisson (particularly convenient to the Ministries and growing Al Khuwair business area); Crown Plaza Hotel (possessing a seafront location and a variety of good restaurants); the Seeb (airport) and Ruwi Novotels, and the renovated Mercure-Al Falaj in Ruwi. (references) |
Bulgaria | The Maria Luiza and Gloria Palace are two other smaller hotels centrally located. (references) | |
Women | Morocco | On March 8, the King, Prime Minister, and several other ministers met with 40 representatives of women's organizations at the Royal Palace. (references) |
Worker Rights | Georgia | The ATUG was involved in a legal action with the Government regarding the Palace of Culture, which the ATUG inherited when the Soviet Union collapsed. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOOKING-:GLASS:, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day. |
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| "Palace" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.42% of the time. "Palace" is used about 4,382 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50.42% | 2,210 | 3,977 |
| Noun (proper) | 49.58% | 2,173 | 4,030 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,382 | N/A |
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Expressions using "palace": archbishop's palace ♦ bishop's palace ♦ buckingham palace ♦ coffee palace ♦ dance palace ♦ floating palace ♦ gin palace ♦ palace car ♦ palace court ♦ palace guard ♦ palace of justice ♦ picture palace ♦ presidential palace ♦ royal palace ♦ the palace ♦ tuileries Palace ♦ Vatican Palace. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "palace": palace-based, Palace-brighton, palace-church, palace-complex, palace-dominated, palace-gate, palace-guards, palace-negotiated, palace-organisation, palace-picture, palace-prison, Palace-swindon, Palace-watford. | |
Ending with "palace": burnt-palace, castle-palace, fairy-palace, fun-palace, gin-palace, ice-palace, picture-palace, steam-palace. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
caesar palace | 2,091 | palace hotel san francisco | 260 |
caesars palace | 1,903 | imperial palace biloxi | 224 |
palace | 1,453 | riu palace | 213 |
doll palace | 1,393 | palace station | 200 |
imperial palace | 1,101 | xpu ha palace | 195 |
moon palace | 850 | cadillac palace theater | 191 |
golden palace | 720 | imperial palace hotel | 185 |
buckingham palace | 720 | palace of versailles | 184 |
palace resort | 656 | moon palace resort | 184 |
palace of auburn hills | 599 | golden palace.com | 174 |
caesar palace las vegas | 547 | palace sex zadinas | 163 |
cancun palace | 521 | palace of fine arts | 160 |
caesars palace las vegas | 517 | cadillac palace | 154 |
palace theater | 501 | ice palace | 153 |
imperial palace las vegas | 455 | new york palace hotel | 150 |
crystal palace | 332 | aventura palace | 150 |
aventura spa palace | 324 | imperial palace casino hotel | 144 |
mayan palace | 307 | palace resort cancun | 143 |
moon palace cancun | 282 | commander palace | 138 |
palace hotel | 271 | corn palace | 131 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "palace"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pallati, pallat (block, seraglio). (various references) | |
Arabic | مبنى ضخم للهو, مبنى الحكومة, قصر (abridge, become shorter, brevity, castle, chateau, contract, court, fragility, limit, limitation, mansion, mortar, narrowness, reduction, restriction, shorten, shortness, smallness), صرح (avow, castle, certify, cut open, declare, edifice, outrival, predicate, proclaim, profess, represent, say, state, tower), بلاط الملك (court). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чертог, палат (court), дворцов (palatial), дворец (court, serai). (various references) | |
Catalan | palau. (various references) | |
Chinese | 宮殿 , 宮 , 宫殿. (various references) | |
Czech | palác. (various references) | |
Danish | palads. (various references) | |
Dutch | paleis. (various references) | |
Esperanto | palaco. (various references) | |
Faeroese | borg (castle, fortress). (various references) | |
Farsi | کوشک , کاخ . (various references) | |
Finnish | palatsi, linna (castle, fortress, prison). (various references) | |
French | palais (palate). (various references) | |
German | Palast. (various references) | |
Greek | παλάτι (seraglio), ανάκτορο (court). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פלטין, אפדן (pavillion), ארמון (chateau, mansion), היכל (sanctuary, temple), הרמון (harem, seraglio), דומוס (layer of stones, mansion), טירה (chateau, hall). (various references) | |
Hungarian | palota (archdeaconate, archdeaconry, hall, mansion), királyi rezidencia. (various references) | |
Icelandic | höll. (various references) | |
Indonesian | istana (castle). (various references) | |
Italian | palazzo (building, hall, mansion). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 殿堂 (palatial building), 御殿 (court), 宮殿 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たまだれ (bamboo curtain), パレス , きゅうしつ (imperial family, moisture absorbing), きゅうでん (ball lightning, electricity cut-off, supplying electricity), きゅうてん (classic, heavens, moxa-treatment points, not running, sky, sudden change, tradition), でんしゃ (electric train), でんどう (conduction, drive, electric, evangelism, gearing, missionary work, palatial building, proselytizing, transmission), でんかく, かんあい, ごてん (court), こうきゅう (consideration, good pitch, hard ball, harem, high class, high grade, high salary, imperial consort, inner palace, investigation, legal holiday, permanent, perpetuity, purchase, reduction in pay, regulation ball, research, seraglio, study), との (feudal lord, mansion). (various references) | |
Korean | 궁전. (various references) | |
Malay | mahligai. (various references) | |
Manx | plaasoil (palatial), plaase, plaasagh (palatial). (various references) | |
Norwegian | slott (castle). (various references) | |
Papiamen | palasio. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alacepay.(various references) | |
Polish | pałac. (various references) | |
Portuguese | palácio (mansion), paço (court). (various references) | |
Romanian | palat (court, hall, mansion, palate), reşedinţã oficialã, clãdire somptuoasã. (various references) | |
Russian | официальная резиденция (mansion-house), дворцовый (palatial, palatine), дворец дворцовый, дворец (chateau). (various references) | |
Scottish | pàlais, lùchairt (a palace, castle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | palata (mansion, mansion-house), dvorac, dvor (court). (various references) | |
Spanish | palacio (mansion, palazzo). (various references) | |
Sranan | paleysi. (various references) | |
Swahili | jumba. (various references) | |
Swedish | palats, slott (Castle, chateau, court, manor house, manor-house). (various references) | |
Turkish | palas, saray (court, seraglio). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kцюk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | резиденція (residence, residency), особняк (mansion), палац (alcazar, seraglio, serai). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cung, điện (consumption, electricity, juice, message, temple). (various references) | |
Welsh | plas (hall, mansion), palas, llys (court, hall). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 5 |
