palace
n. countablen. a large, beautiful house where a king, queen, or leader lives. It is often a famous building that people visit to see how powerful people lived in the past.
n. the official residence of a sovereign, head of state, or other high-ranking dignitary. Often used to describe any large, ornate, or stately building.
The royal family lives in a beautiful palace in the city.
Thousands of tourists gather outside the palace every morning to watch the changing of the guard.
The ancient palace stands as a testament to the empire's former wealth, featuring marble floors and gold-leaf ceilings in every hall.
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 Etruscan, the same source as Pales (“Pales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock”), or Latin palus (“stake; enclosure”). Doublet of palazzo and Pfalz.