Every little girl would like to be a princess and live in a huge palace. It seems so fabulous and wonderful to her. In this article, we will analyze in detail the meaning of the word "palace", find out how it happens, talk about phonetic and morphological characteristics and try to pick up a few synonyms for it.
The Palace is
It seems to us that we know almost everything about the meaning of the word "palace". To check if this is really so, let's open an explanatory dictionary.
The palace is:
- The house where the rulers live (The Palace of Prince Vladimir of Kyiv impressed with its splendor and luxury).
- A large, very luxurious building (It was a real ice palace).
- A building in which some important organization functions (The new Palace of Culture opens in our city next Friday).
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 dividedinto 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 stress is the letter "e".
Morphological characteristics
From the point of view of morphology, "palace" is a common inanimate noun of the masculine gender, of the second declension. Although it must be admitted that if "palace" is part of the name of a unique building, the noun is proper.
| Case | Question | Examples with singular noun | Examples with 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 inside the Palace of Justice. | There are no palaces in our city. |
| Dative | What? | A group of students approached the once very beautiful palace, most of which was destroyed during World War II. | Palaces can be used to judge the peculiarities of the culture of a certain era. |
| Accusative | What? | Mom, tomorrow we will go to the prince's palace with the class. | In September in Prague we visited beautiful palaces, inwhere rich and noble people once lived. |
| Instrumental | What? | A huge hole was dug behind the palace. | Palaces were the dwellings of rulers. |
| Prepositional case | About what? | Angelina, what can you tell the class about the Winter Palace? | I have never lived in palaces. |
Palace: synonyms
How do you know if words are synonyms? First, they refer to the same part of speech; secondly, they are pronounced and spelled differently; thirdly, they have the same or similar meaning.
Full and partial synonyms of the noun "palace":
- Sarai: The decor in the caravanserai was rich, everything was tastefully chosen.
- 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 some castles.
- Terem: The Tsar's daughter will marry the one who jumps to the window of the tower and rips a lilac handkerchief from the girl's neck.
Phrases with the noun "palace"
What adjectives go with "palace"?
Beautiful, rich, royal, princely, luxurious, large, huge, majestic, beautiful, princely, sultanic, European, wonderful, golden, real, fabulous, mythical, unreal, magical, creepy, dark, gloomy, gloomy, multi-room, expensive, fictional, painted, simple, difficult,single-storey, multi-storey, plain, ancient, wooden, stone, brick, of the same type, unique, unrepeatable, warm, cold, exposed, icy, durable, strange.
