plaza

[plah-zuh, plaz-uh] Origin

pla·za

[plah-zuh, plaz-uh]
noun
1.
a public square or open space in a city or town.
3.
an area along an expressway where public facilities, as service stations and rest rooms, are available.

Origin:
1675–85; < Spanish < Latin platea street < Greek plateîa broad street. See place
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Plaza is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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World English Dictionary
plaza (ˈplɑːzə, Spanish ˈplaθa)
 
n
1.  an open space or square, esp in Spain or a Spanish-speaking country
2.  chiefly (US), (Canadian)
 a.  a modern complex of shops, buildings, and parking areas
 b.  (capital when part of a name): Rockefeller Plaza
 
[C17: from Spanish, from Latin platēa courtyard, from Greek plateia; see place]

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plaza
1683, from Sp. plaza "square, place," from V.L. *plattia, from L. platea "courtyard, broad street" (see place (n.)).
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