Other forms: palaces
A palace is the grand beautiful home of a royal family. Buckingham Palace, the palace gates, a royal palace.
It also names any very grand building — a cinema called a picture palace, a palace of justice. The palace as a source of statements is the standard journalistic shorthand for the royal household. Note that palace comes from the Palatine Hill in Rome, where the emperors lived, so every palace in Europe is named after one hill.
1nounpalaceThe grand home of a royal family.
“The palace has about seven hundred rooms.”
2nounbuildingAny very grand building.
“Their new house was a palace compared to the tiny flat they had before.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
palace is a grand building.
Latin palatium comes from the Palatine Hill in Rome, where the emperors built. Every palace, palazzo and Palast in Europe is named after that hill.
Latin
palātium
Old French
palais
Middle English
paleys
English, today
palace
Built from
From Middle English paleys, from Old French palais, which comes from Latin palātium, from Palātium, in reference to the Palatine (Palatine Hill), one of the seven hills of Rome, where the aristocracy of the Roman Republic—and later, Roman emperors—built large, splendid residences. The name is ultimately either from ett -, the same source as Pales (“Pales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock”), or Latin palus (“stake; enclosure”). a doublet of palazzo and Pfalz.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA