POSITIONS

The particular portion of space occupied by something

Example: "He put the lamp back in its place"

• place  9

• point  7

• wing  8
• half-mast
• half-staff
• lead  5
• • pole position
  • polls  7
  • pride of place
  • anomaly  12
  • site  4
  • situation  9
  • setting  8
  • juxtaposition  29
  • lie  3
  • post  6
  • station  7
  • pitch  12
  • landmark  15
  • right  9
  • left  7
  • back  12
  • rear  4
  • front  8
  • stand  6
  • station  7
  • vantage  11
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A point occupied by troops for tactical reasons

• military position

• point  7

• ground  8
• line  4

A way of regarding situations or topics etc.

Example: "Consider what follows from the positivist view"

• perspective  20
• view  10

• orientation  11

• bird's eye view
• panoramic view
• futurism  13
• forefront  15
• • vanguard  13
  • paradigm  14
  • light  9
  • sight  9
  • weltanschauung  23
  • world view
  • straddle  10
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The arrangement of the body and its limbs

Example: "He assumed an attitude of surrender"

• attitude  9
• posture  9

• bodily property

• order arms
• ballet position
• decubitus  14
• eversion  11
• • lithotomy position
  • lotus position
  • pose  6
  • presentation  14
  • ectopia  11
  • asana  5
  • guard  7
  • sprawl  11
  • sprawling  15
  • stance  8
  • tuck  10
  • standard anatomical position
  • back stance
  • crouch start
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The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society

Example: "He had the status of a minor"

• status  6

• state  5

• face  9
• election  10
• echelon  12
• equality  20
• • equation  17
  • equivalence  25
  • par  5
  • rank  8
  • social rank
  • social station
  • social status
  • standing  10
  • high status
  • high ground
  • high profile
  • holy order
  • order  6
  • low status
  • lowliness  12
  • lowness  10
  • legal status
  • bar sinister
  • bastardy  14
  • illegitimacy  20
  • left-handedness
  • command  14
  • nationality  14
  • footing  11
  • terms  7
  • retirement  12
  • rank  8
  • caste  7
  • dignity  12
  • nobility  13
  • noblesse  10
  • ordination  11
  • pedestal  11
  • leadership  16
  • slot  4
  • toehold  11
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A job in an organization

Example: "He occupied a post in the treasury"

• berth  10
• office  14
• place  9
• post  6
• situation  9

• business  10
• job  12
• line  4
• line of work
• occupation  16

• academicianship
• accountantship  23
• admiralty  15
• ambassadorship  24
• • apostleship  18
  • apprenticeship  25
  • associateship  20
  • attorneyship  20
  • bailiffship  24
  • baronetage  13
  • bishopry
  • episcopate  16
  • cadetship  17
  • caliphate  16
  • captaincy  18
  • captainship  20
  • cardinalate  14
  • cardinalship  20
  • chairmanship  24
  • chancellorship  26
  • chaplaincy  22
  • chaplainship  24
  • chieftaincy  24
  • chieftainship  26
  • clerkship  20
  • commandership  25
  • commandery  20
  • comptrollership  26
  • consulship  17
  • controllership  21
  • councillorship  23
  • councilorship  22
  • counsellorship  21
  • counselorship  20
  • curacy  13
  • curatorship  18
  • custodianship  21
  • deanery  11
  • deanship  14
  • directorship  20
  • discipleship  22
  • editorship  16
  • eldership  15
  • emirate  9
  • fatherhood  20
  • fatherhood  20
  • foremanship  21
  • generalcy  15
  • generalship  17
  • governorship  21
  • headship  17
  • headship  17
  • hot seat
  • incumbency  21
  • inspectorship  22
  • instructorship  21
  • internship  15
  • judgeship  23
  • judicature  20
  • khanate  14
  • lectureship  18
  • legateship  16
  • legation  9
  • legislatorship  20
  • librarianship  20
  • lieutenancy  16
  • magistracy  18
  • magistrature  15
  • managership  19
  • manhood  13
  • marshalship  21
  • mastership  17
  • mayoralty  17
  • messiahship  21
  • moderatorship  21
  • overlordship  21
  • pastorate  11
  • pastorship  17
  • peasanthood
  • plum  8
  • praetorship  18
  • precentorship  22
  • preceptorship  24
  • prefecture  17
  • prelacy  14
  • prelature  11
  • premiership  20
  • presidency  18
  • presidentship  21
  • primateship  20
  • principalship  24
  • priorship  16
  • proconsulate  16
  • proconsulship  22
  • proctorship  20
  • chair  10
  • professorship  23
  • protectorship  22
  • public office
  • rabbinate  13
  • receivership  22
  • rectorate  11
  • rectorship  17
  • regency  13
  • residency  15
  • rulership  14
  • sainthood  13
  • secretaryship  23
  • feudal lordship
  • seigneury  13
  • seigniory  13
  • senatorship  16
  • sinecure  10
  • solicitorship  20
  • speakership  22
  • stewardship  20
  • studentship  17
  • teachership  21
  • thaneship  17
  • throne  9
  • treasurership  18
  • tribuneship  18
  • trusteeship  16
  • vice-presidency
  • viceroyship  24
  • viziership  27
  • wardenship  19
  • wardership  19
  • womanhood  18
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The spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated

Example: "The position of the hands on the clock"

• spatial relation

• relation  8

• occlusion  13
• inclination  13
• lean  4
• leaning  8
• • list  4
  • tilt  4
  • gradient  10
  • arrangement  14
  • placement  15
  • point of view
  • coincidence  18
  • dead center
  • dead centre
  • centrality  15
  • marginality  17
  • anteriority  14
  • posteriority  17
  • externality  21
  • outwardness  15
  • inwardness  14
  • malposition  15
  • misplacement  20
  • northernness
  • southernness  15
  • horizontality  28
  • erectness  11
  • uprightness  17
  • verticality  19
  • verticalness  17
  • slot  4
  • elbow room
  • room  6
  • way  9
  • direction  12
  • angular position
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The appropriate or customary location

Example: "The cars were in position"

(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player

Example: "What position does he play?"

• role  4

• goalie  7
• goalkeeper  17
• goaltender  12
• netkeeper
• • mound  8
  • pitcher  14
  • catcher  14
  • first  8
  • first base
  • second  9
  • second base
  • short  8
  • shortstop  14
  • third  9
  • third base
  • left field
  • leftfield
  • center field
  • centerfield
  • right field
  • rightfield
  • forward  14
  • center  8
  • guard  7
  • back  12
  • lineman  9
  • mid-off
  • mid-on
  • center  8
  • cleanup  11
  • cleanup position
  • cleanup spot
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The act of putting something in a certain place

• emplacement  19
• locating  11
• location  10
• placement  15
• positioning  14

• activity  16

• stratification  19
• apposition  14
• collocation  15
• juxtaposition  29
• • interposition  15
  • intervention  15
  • orientation  11
  • planting  11
  • implantation  16
  • repositioning  16
  • set  3
  • superposition  17
  • superposition  17
  • temporalization
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A condition or position in which you find yourself

Example: "The unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"

• situation  9

• condition  12
• status  6

• place  9
• shoes  8
• poverty trap
• soup  6
• • stymie  11
  • stymy  13
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A rationalized mental attitude

• posture  9
• stance  8

• attitude  9
• mental attitude

• point of view
• stand  6
• standpoint  13
• viewpoint  17

An opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute

Example: "There are two sides to every question"

• side  5

An item on a list or in a sequence

Example: "In the second place"

• place  9

• item  6
• point  7

• postposition  16
• preposition  15

The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

Example: "Can you go in my stead?"

• lieu  4
• place  9
• stead  6

• function  13
• office  14
• part  6
• role  4

• behalf  14

The act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom