Every little girl would like to be a princess and live in a huge palace. It seems to her so fabulous and wonderful. In this article we will analyze in detail the meaning of the word "palace", find out what it happens, talk about phonetic and morphological characteristics, and try to find several synonyms for it.
Palace is
It seems to us that we know almost everything about the meaning of the word "palace". To check whether this is actually so, we will open an explanatory dictionary.
The palace is:
- The house in which the rulers live (the Palace of the Kiev Prince Vladimir impressed with its magnificence and luxury).
- A large, very luxurious building (It was a real ice palace).
- The building in which some important organization functions (Next Friday, a new Palace of Culture will open in our city).
Sounds, syllables, stress
The word "palace" consists of six letters and the same number of sounds: two vowels and four consonants. Since there are two vowels, the word is divided into two syllables. If a word has more than one syllable, only one of them is stressed. In our case, this is the second syllable, that is, the shock is the letter "e".
Morphological characteristics
From the point of view of morphology, the "palace" is a common inanimate noun of the masculine gender, the second declension. Although it must be admitted that if the "palace" is part of the name of a unique building, the noun is its own.
| Case | Question | Singular noun examples | Plural Nouns |
| Nominative | What? | The Wedding Palace is closed on Mondays, you can come any day from Tuesday to Friday. | Palaces are very beautiful buildings decorated with carvings, precious stones and gold ornaments. |
| Genitive | What? | The polling station is located in the premises of the Palace of Justice. | There are no palaces in our city. |
| Dative | Why? | A group of students approached the once very beautiful palace, most of which was destroyed during World War II. | The palaces can be judged on the features of the culture of a particular era. |
| Accusative | What? | Mom, tomorrow we will go with the class to the princely palace. | In September in Prague, we visited beautiful palaces in which rich and noble people once lived. |
| Instrumental case | Than? | A huge pit was dug behind the palace. | Palaces called the homes of rulers. |
| Prepositional | About what? | Angelina, what can you tell the class about the Winter Palace? | I never lived in palaces. |
Palace: synonyms
How do I know if words are synonyms? First, they relate to the same part of speech; secondly, they are pronounced and written differently; thirdly, they have the same or similar meaning.
Full and partial synonyms of the noun "palace":
- Shed: The situation in the caravanserai was rich, all things were tastefully selected.
- Tower: For a long time, the princess was locked in a tower guarded by two dragons.
- Castle: In France, we saw the Eiffel Tower and several castles.
- Terem: The royal daughter will marry someone who jumps to the window of the tower and rips off a lilac scarf from the girl’s neck.
Phrases with the noun "palace"
What adjectives does the word "palace" combine with?
Beautiful, rich, royal, princely, luxurious, large, huge, majestic, beautiful, princely, sultan, European, wonderful, golden, real, fairy-tale, mythical, unreal, magical, creepy, dark, gloomy, gloomy, multi-room, expensive, fictional, painted, simple, complicated, one-story, multi-story, unprepossessing, ancient, wooden, stone, brick, the same type, unique, inimitable, warm, cold, cold-pressed, icy, durable, strange.