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SHOWPLACE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does showplace mean?
• SHOWPLACE (noun)
The noun SHOWPLACE has 1 sense:
1. a place that is frequently exhibited and visited for its historical interest or natural beauty
Familiarity information: SHOWPLACE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A place that is frequently exhibited and visited for its historical interest or natural beauty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("showplace" is a kind of...):
place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)
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