Plaza meaning

plä'zə, plăz'ə
The definition of a plaza is a public square, or a shopping area.

An example of a plaza is a local mall.

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A public square or similar open area in a town or city.
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A shopping center.
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A complex of shops or buildings, esp. a shopping center.
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A service area along a superhighway, with a restaurant, gas station, etc.
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A town's public square.
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An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches.
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Origin of plaza

  • Spanish from Vulgar Latin plattea from Latin platea broad street place
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Spanish plaza (“town-square or central place of gathering"), from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateia), shortening of πλατεῖα (plateia) ὁδός (plateia hodos, “broad way").
    From Wiktionary

Plaza Sentence Examples

  • Loreto Plaza Shopping Center up on State Street isn't a large ...

  • There's also La Cumbre Plaza on South Hope, it has Sears, Macy's and Vons.

  • The elevation of this plaza is 9343 ft.

  • The city is laid out regularly, with broad streets, a large central plaza and a public garden, or promenade, called the prado.

  • west of the Plaza Mayor, covers an area of 40 acres, and occupies the site of the old Indian market and place of execution, where occurred the first auto-dafe in Mexico in 1574.

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