† playstown.

Brit.

/ˈpleɪstəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈpleɪˌstoʊ/

Forms: Old English blegstow (transmission error), Old English plegestow, Old English plegstow, 1800s playstow.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: play n., stow n.¹

Etymology: < play n. + stow n.¹ Compare playstead n. and quot. lOE at playing n.Attested in a number of English place names dating from the Old and Middle English periods, as e.g. Plaistow, Devon (1086 as Pleistou, Pleiestou), Plaistow, Derbyshire (late 12th cent. as Plagestoue), Plestowes Farm, Warwickshire (1189–99 as Plestow, Plestowes), etc.; compare also The Plestor, Hampshire, the name of an area of open land in Selbourne. Also attested in a number of Middle English surnames, as e.g. Radulfus de Pleistowe (?1166), Laur' Atepleystowe (1279), Joh. atte Pleystowe (1333), although it is unclear which of these reflect existing place names and which arise immediately from the common noun.

A place for play; a public recreation ground.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun]

playstoweOE

recreation1440

playground1825

hang-out1957

eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 215 Gymnasio, on plegestowum.

eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 354 Palestrarum, gestrynga, plegstowa.

OE Ælfric Homily (Trin. Cambr. B.15.34) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 344 Gelice..þæra cildra sceotungum þe sceotiað mid reodum on heore geonglicum plegan on heora plegstowe.

OE Prognostics (Tiber.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1910) 125 58 In thea[t]rum uel in amphitheatrum exspectare se uiderit, tumultum aliquem s[ignificat] : on blegstowe [read plegstowe] oððe on wafungstowe andbidian hine gesihð styrunge sume g[etacnaþ].

1869 Putnam's Mag. Sept. 364/2 Every village should, of course, have its Green, or playground, or common, or playstow, or pleasaunce.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	playstow
释义	† playstown. Brit. /ˈpleɪstəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpleɪˌstoʊ/ Forms: Old English blegstow (transmission error), Old English plegestow, Old English plegstow, 1800s playstow. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: play n., stow n.¹ Etymology: < play n. + stow n.¹ Compare playstead n. and quot. lOE at playing n.Attested in a number of English place names dating from the Old and Middle English periods, as e.g. Plaistow, Devon (1086 as Pleistou, Pleiestou), Plaistow, Derbyshire (late 12th cent. as Plagestoue), Plestowes Farm, Warwickshire (1189–99 as Plestow, Plestowes), etc.; compare also The Plestor, Hampshire, the name of an area of open land in Selbourne. Also attested in a number of Middle English surnames, as e.g. Radulfus de Pleistowe (?1166), Laur' Atepleystowe (1279), Joh. atte Pleystowe (1333), although it is unclear which of these reflect existing place names and which arise immediately from the common noun. A place for play; a public recreation ground. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] playstoweOE recreation1440 playground1825 hang-out1957 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 215 Gymnasio, on plegestowum. eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 354 Palestrarum, gestrynga, plegstowa. OE Ælfric Homily (Trin. Cambr. B.15.34) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 344 Gelice..þæra cildra sceotungum þe sceotiað mid reodum on heore geonglicum plegan on heora plegstowe. OE Prognostics (Tiber.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1910) 125 58 In thea[t]rum uel in amphitheatrum exspectare se uiderit, tumultum aliquem s[ignificat] : on blegstowe [read plegstowe] oððe on wafungstowe andbidian hine gesihð styrunge sume g[etacnaþ]. 1869 Putnam's Mag. Sept. 364/2 Every village should, of course, have its Green, or playground, or common, or playstow, or pleasaunce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE
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