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UK
/ʃˈəʊpleɪs/
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[ US /ˈʃoʊˌpɫeɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈʃoʊˌpɫeɪs/ ]
NOUN
- a place that is frequently exhibited and visited for its historical interest or natural beauty
How To Use showplace In A Sentence
- Male bowerbirds famously woo females by fashioning elaborate bowers - not nests but U-shaped showplaces with parallel walls of twigs.
- Male bowerbirds famously woo females by fashioning elaborate bowers - not nests but U-shaped showplaces with parallel walls of twigs.
- The man seen by many as Enemy No.1 of the environment has built a showplace of ecological sensitivity.
- With $228,664 worth of grants from license-tag funding, the Nature Conservancy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, organizers from the Marine Discovery Center and Volusia County government are hoping to turn Chicken Island into a kind of showplace for how estuary-restoring efforts work. Undefined
- Williams was identified as an antiques dealer, a restorer of historic houses, and a giver of elegant parties at his "showplace" home, which Jacqueline Onassis had visited and offered to buy for $2 million. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Frank called from the ranch last week to say that they've put the showplace on the market, opting to move full-time to their nearby bay house.
- Nearly 400 people crammed into Harlem's Studio Museum, an impressive showplace for the work of black artists just a stone's throw from the legendary Apollo Theater, for the glitzy party my publisher threw for the launch of my latest book.
- The Oscars were once known as a showplace for new commercials, much as the Super Bowl. NYT > Home Page
- With a glowing, glass facade, humongous sliding doors that can open both ends and 80,000 seats -- 100,000, if necessary -- the Cowboys sure are aiming for the kind of showplace you'd expect from a club that bills itself as "America's Team. The new stadium in Arlington
- Now that the Premiership is a global showplace, all that's changed.