plaza
Use Plaza in a sentence
zə, ˈplæz 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.
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| —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 | |
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Plaza
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
plaza
1683, from Sp. plaza "square, place," from V.L. *plattia, from L. platea "courtyard, broad street" (see place (n.)).
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Example sentences
He likes to take visitors onto the balcony of the town hall and challenge them to spot a scrap of paper in the plaza.
Each settlement is organized around a central plaza and linked to others via precisely placed roads.
But the modernised side has outdoor tables, placed on a plaza full of cranes and new buildings.
Outside, the trees on the plaza start to fade into twilight.
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