Definition of plaza in English:

plaza

noun ˈplɑːzə

North American

1A public square, marketplace, or similar open space in a built-up area.
广场；市场
the plaza is lively in the evenings when the pavement cafes are full
Example sentencesExamples
- The Learning Corridor includes five separate buildings, large public plazas and green spaces, and a parking garage.
- We have some lovely plazas, squares, public markets, and parks.
- The westernmost of these smaller spaces is a transport plaza, the central space is a civic plaza and the eastern space, towards the historic residential zone, is a neighbourhood park.
- The recent external works have upgraded Bowen Street from a service street into a public plaza.
- The new rules cover exterior lighting for parking areas, walkways, plazas, building entries, canopies, façade lighting and outdoor sales areas.
- The rest of the site is taken up by an administrative building for the symphony and a public plaza, covered with local dark-gray stone, with parking below.
- Spend a couple of days soaking up its 15th and 18th century buildings, modern skyscrapers and its pretty squares, parks and plazas.
- Village, town, and city streets, plazas, and open spaces are common property and subject to regulation by civic authority.
- Many new schools are incorporating secure outdoor play areas, courtyards and plazas, enabling students to go outside to eat, socialize and study in an easily supervised setting.
- Next morning, on arriving at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, I saw three pieces of equipment removing the sidewalk from the plaza area near the staircase.
- It is therefore reasonable that Jesus' strategy combined activities in plazas or open areas with those in houses.
- Parked cars and billboards have further eroded the plaza's space.
- Development of an urban center and plaza - a public open space with an academic building and retail stores - required 10 different funding sources.
- The ordinance also granted property owners an increase in the total floor area otherwise allowed in exchange for providing public plazas or arcades.
- This is hardly a new idea; plazas have always been public stages.
- The demolition is paving the way for what developers call an ‘urban village’ of office, retail, and residential space along with park and plaza areas for the public.
- Small groups of flexible work areas surround the plaza.
- A plaza joins a public esplanade which is planned to eventually connect all of Tacoma's waterfront.
- On the building's south side he crafted cascading, landscaped plazas and gathering spaces of different shapes and sizes that should encourage full use.
Synonyms
marketplace, close, quadrangle, quad, courtyard
2A shopping centre.
〈北美〉购物中心
they bought fancy bridal wear at the plaza
Example sentencesExamples
- Customers vouch for the convenience of shopping in a plaza without the hassle of elbowing through a crowded market.
- Just right for walking back to my car way down the road in the shopping plaza where we left it.
- In a bid to make the most of the evening I stormed the shopping plaza right across the hotel.
- It's more of a small indoor shopping plaza with retail stores and the like.
- The speaker system played an unobtrusive drumming music that was perfectly suited for the food and a nice change from the normal quiet interspersed with chatter that occurs in most of the plaza restaurants.
- I finally caught up with him inside a store in one of the shopping plazas.
- Built just eight years ago, its bright blue, green, and white facade still glows from a hillside overlooking a bustling shopping plaza.
- A mall, of course, is not that far removed from a shopping plaza.
- Housed in upmarket shopping plazas, a string of outlets has come up at several locations.
- Sometimes it takes a new store or shopping plaza to wake a small business owner.
- I am now going to tell you a story from a popular shopping plaza in South Pattaya.
- He expects to develop the retail plaza but most likely would sell the hotel and apartment property to developers.
- Shopping plazas have sprung up in every imaginable location of this sleepy town.
- People are waiting in long lines even at shopping plazas since news of a shortage of vaccine surfaced last month.
- Remake them as outdoor shopping plazas, reminiscent of the town centers they replaced.
- Paddy fields and orchards have given way to shopping plazas and industrial buildings.
- At malls and huge shopping plazas, you get pushed and jostled.
- In designing our modern conveniences - groceries, retail, strip plazas, motels, banks - traffic planners assume that people will not walk more than 300 ft.
- That building burned down, and now there's a rather awful-looking shopping plaza in its place.
- Grant plays the affable front man for his family, who build condos and shopping plazas for a ridiculous profit.
Synonyms
shopping centre, shopping precinct, shopping complex

Origin

Late 17th century: from Spanish, literally 'place'.

place from Old English:
If you have been to Italy or Spain you have probably visited the piazza or plaza of a town. These words have the same origin as English place and French place ‘(public) square’, namely Latin platea ‘open space’, from Greek plateia hodos ‘broad way’. From the early Middle Ages, when it was adopted from French, place superseded stow (found in place names such as Stow on the Wold and Padstow) and stead, as in Wanstead. The sense ‘a space that can be occupied’ developed in Middle English from this. The orderly person's mantra a place for everything and everything in its place goes back to the 17th century, but the modern formulation first appears in the 1840s in Captain Frederick Marryat's nautical yarn Masterman Ready: ‘In a well-conducted man-of-war…every thing in its place, and there is a place for every thing.’ In 1897 the German Chancellor Prince Bernhard von Bülow, made a speech in the Reichstag in which he declared, ‘we desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our place in the sun’. As a result the expression a place in the sun, ‘a position of favour or advantage’, has been associated with German nationalism. However, it is recorded much earlier, and is traceable back to the writings of the 17th-century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal.

Rhymes

parser, tabula rasa

Definition of plaza in US English:

plaza

noun

North American

1A public square, marketplace, or similar open space in a built-up area.
广场；市场
the plaza is lively in the evenings when the pavement cafes are full
Example sentencesExamples
- On the building's south side he crafted cascading, landscaped plazas and gathering spaces of different shapes and sizes that should encourage full use.
- Small groups of flexible work areas surround the plaza.
- It is therefore reasonable that Jesus' strategy combined activities in plazas or open areas with those in houses.
- We have some lovely plazas, squares, public markets, and parks.
- The ordinance also granted property owners an increase in the total floor area otherwise allowed in exchange for providing public plazas or arcades.
- Spend a couple of days soaking up its 15th and 18th century buildings, modern skyscrapers and its pretty squares, parks and plazas.
- Parked cars and billboards have further eroded the plaza's space.
- The westernmost of these smaller spaces is a transport plaza, the central space is a civic plaza and the eastern space, towards the historic residential zone, is a neighbourhood park.
- This is hardly a new idea; plazas have always been public stages.
- The Learning Corridor includes five separate buildings, large public plazas and green spaces, and a parking garage.
- The demolition is paving the way for what developers call an ‘urban village’ of office, retail, and residential space along with park and plaza areas for the public.
- Next morning, on arriving at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, I saw three pieces of equipment removing the sidewalk from the plaza area near the staircase.
- The rest of the site is taken up by an administrative building for the symphony and a public plaza, covered with local dark-gray stone, with parking below.
- The new rules cover exterior lighting for parking areas, walkways, plazas, building entries, canopies, façade lighting and outdoor sales areas.
- Village, town, and city streets, plazas, and open spaces are common property and subject to regulation by civic authority.
- A plaza joins a public esplanade which is planned to eventually connect all of Tacoma's waterfront.
- Development of an urban center and plaza - a public open space with an academic building and retail stores - required 10 different funding sources.
- The recent external works have upgraded Bowen Street from a service street into a public plaza.
- Many new schools are incorporating secure outdoor play areas, courtyards and plazas, enabling students to go outside to eat, socialize and study in an easily supervised setting.
Synonyms
marketplace, close, quadrangle, quad, courtyard
2A shopping center.
〈北美〉购物中心
they bought fancy bridal wear at the plaza
Example sentencesExamples
- Sometimes it takes a new store or shopping plaza to wake a small business owner.
- That building burned down, and now there's a rather awful-looking shopping plaza in its place.
- People are waiting in long lines even at shopping plazas since news of a shortage of vaccine surfaced last month.
- In a bid to make the most of the evening I stormed the shopping plaza right across the hotel.
- At malls and huge shopping plazas, you get pushed and jostled.
- A mall, of course, is not that far removed from a shopping plaza.
- Just right for walking back to my car way down the road in the shopping plaza where we left it.
- Paddy fields and orchards have given way to shopping plazas and industrial buildings.
- Customers vouch for the convenience of shopping in a plaza without the hassle of elbowing through a crowded market.
- In designing our modern conveniences - groceries, retail, strip plazas, motels, banks - traffic planners assume that people will not walk more than 300 ft.
- Shopping plazas have sprung up in every imaginable location of this sleepy town.
- Remake them as outdoor shopping plazas, reminiscent of the town centers they replaced.
- Built just eight years ago, its bright blue, green, and white facade still glows from a hillside overlooking a bustling shopping plaza.
- He expects to develop the retail plaza but most likely would sell the hotel and apartment property to developers.
- The speaker system played an unobtrusive drumming music that was perfectly suited for the food and a nice change from the normal quiet interspersed with chatter that occurs in most of the plaza restaurants.
- I am now going to tell you a story from a popular shopping plaza in South Pattaya.
- Housed in upmarket shopping plazas, a string of outlets has come up at several locations.
- I finally caught up with him inside a store in one of the shopping plazas.
- It's more of a small indoor shopping plaza with retail stores and the like.
- Grant plays the affable front man for his family, who build condos and shopping plazas for a ridiculous profit.
Synonyms
shopping centre, shopping precinct, shopping complex
1. 2.1US A service area on a highway, typically with a gas station and restaurants.
  Example sentencesExamples
  At a service plaza near Mishawaka and Kokomo, a tourist brochure caught my eye.
  The Travel Plaza, a family operated truck stop, has proudly served the trucking industry and the general motoring public for over 30 years.
  This old service plaza is very small by today's standards, but provides a great service and a good dose of history.
  Now he was on the road and had gone to Truckers' Church at a service plaza that morning.
  That didn't stop us from going out to the northwest to our open field five miles south of the Okahumpka service plaza on the Florida turnpike.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Spanish, literally ‘place’.

词汇	plaza
释义	Definition of plaza in English: plaza noun ˈplɑːzə North American 1A public square, marketplace, or similar open space in a built-up area. 广场；市场 the plaza is lively in the evenings when the pavement cafes are full Example sentencesExamples The Learning Corridor includes five separate buildings, large public plazas and green spaces, and a parking garage. We have some lovely plazas, squares, public markets, and parks. The westernmost of these smaller spaces is a transport plaza, the central space is a civic plaza and the eastern space, towards the historic residential zone, is a neighbourhood park. The recent external works have upgraded Bowen Street from a service street into a public plaza. The new rules cover exterior lighting for parking areas, walkways, plazas, building entries, canopies, façade lighting and outdoor sales areas. The rest of the site is taken up by an administrative building for the symphony and a public plaza, covered with local dark-gray stone, with parking below. Spend a couple of days soaking up its 15th and 18th century buildings, modern skyscrapers and its pretty squares, parks and plazas. Village, town, and city streets, plazas, and open spaces are common property and subject to regulation by civic authority. Many new schools are incorporating secure outdoor play areas, courtyards and plazas, enabling students to go outside to eat, socialize and study in an easily supervised setting. Next morning, on arriving at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, I saw three pieces of equipment removing the sidewalk from the plaza area near the staircase. It is therefore reasonable that Jesus' strategy combined activities in plazas or open areas with those in houses. Parked cars and billboards have further eroded the plaza's space. Development of an urban center and plaza - a public open space with an academic building and retail stores - required 10 different funding sources. The ordinance also granted property owners an increase in the total floor area otherwise allowed in exchange for providing public plazas or arcades. This is hardly a new idea; plazas have always been public stages. The demolition is paving the way for what developers call an ‘urban village’ of office, retail, and residential space along with park and plaza areas for the public. Small groups of flexible work areas surround the plaza. A plaza joins a public esplanade which is planned to eventually connect all of Tacoma's waterfront. On the building's south side he crafted cascading, landscaped plazas and gathering spaces of different shapes and sizes that should encourage full use. Synonyms marketplace, close, quadrangle, quad, courtyard 2A shopping centre. 〈北美〉购物中心 they bought fancy bridal wear at the plaza Example sentencesExamples Customers vouch for the convenience of shopping in a plaza without the hassle of elbowing through a crowded market. Just right for walking back to my car way down the road in the shopping plaza where we left it. In a bid to make the most of the evening I stormed the shopping plaza right across the hotel. It's more of a small indoor shopping plaza with retail stores and the like. The speaker system played an unobtrusive drumming music that was perfectly suited for the food and a nice change from the normal quiet interspersed with chatter that occurs in most of the plaza restaurants. I finally caught up with him inside a store in one of the shopping plazas. Built just eight years ago, its bright blue, green, and white facade still glows from a hillside overlooking a bustling shopping plaza. A mall, of course, is not that far removed from a shopping plaza. Housed in upmarket shopping plazas, a string of outlets has come up at several locations. Sometimes it takes a new store or shopping plaza to wake a small business owner. I am now going to tell you a story from a popular shopping plaza in South Pattaya. He expects to develop the retail plaza but most likely would sell the hotel and apartment property to developers. Shopping plazas have sprung up in every imaginable location of this sleepy town. People are waiting in long lines even at shopping plazas since news of a shortage of vaccine surfaced last month. Remake them as outdoor shopping plazas, reminiscent of the town centers they replaced. Paddy fields and orchards have given way to shopping plazas and industrial buildings. At malls and huge shopping plazas, you get pushed and jostled. In designing our modern conveniences - groceries, retail, strip plazas, motels, banks - traffic planners assume that people will not walk more than 300 ft. That building burned down, and now there's a rather awful-looking shopping plaza in its place. Grant plays the affable front man for his family, who build condos and shopping plazas for a ridiculous profit. Synonyms shopping centre, shopping precinct, shopping complex Origin Late 17th century: from Spanish, literally 'place'. place from Old English: If you have been to Italy or Spain you have probably visited the piazza or plaza of a town. These words have the same origin as English place and French place ‘(public) square’, namely Latin platea ‘open space’, from Greek plateia hodos ‘broad way’. From the early Middle Ages, when it was adopted from French, place superseded stow (found in place names such as Stow on the Wold and Padstow) and stead, as in Wanstead. The sense ‘a space that can be occupied’ developed in Middle English from this. The orderly person's mantra a place for everything and everything in its place goes back to the 17th century, but the modern formulation first appears in the 1840s in Captain Frederick Marryat's nautical yarn Masterman Ready: ‘In a well-conducted man-of-war…every thing in its place, and there is a place for every thing.’ In 1897 the German Chancellor Prince Bernhard von Bülow, made a speech in the Reichstag in which he declared, ‘we desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our place in the sun’. As a result the expression a place in the sun, ‘a position of favour or advantage’, has been associated with German nationalism. However, it is recorded much earlier, and is traceable back to the writings of the 17th-century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. Rhymes parser, tabula rasa Definition of plaza in US English: plaza noun North American 1A public square, marketplace, or similar open space in a built-up area. 广场；市场 the plaza is lively in the evenings when the pavement cafes are full Example sentencesExamples On the building's south side he crafted cascading, landscaped plazas and gathering spaces of different shapes and sizes that should encourage full use. Small groups of flexible work areas surround the plaza. It is therefore reasonable that Jesus' strategy combined activities in plazas or open areas with those in houses. We have some lovely plazas, squares, public markets, and parks. The ordinance also granted property owners an increase in the total floor area otherwise allowed in exchange for providing public plazas or arcades. Spend a couple of days soaking up its 15th and 18th century buildings, modern skyscrapers and its pretty squares, parks and plazas. Parked cars and billboards have further eroded the plaza's space. The westernmost of these smaller spaces is a transport plaza, the central space is a civic plaza and the eastern space, towards the historic residential zone, is a neighbourhood park. This is hardly a new idea; plazas have always been public stages. The Learning Corridor includes five separate buildings, large public plazas and green spaces, and a parking garage. The demolition is paving the way for what developers call an ‘urban village’ of office, retail, and residential space along with park and plaza areas for the public. Next morning, on arriving at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, I saw three pieces of equipment removing the sidewalk from the plaza area near the staircase. The rest of the site is taken up by an administrative building for the symphony and a public plaza, covered with local dark-gray stone, with parking below. The new rules cover exterior lighting for parking areas, walkways, plazas, building entries, canopies, façade lighting and outdoor sales areas. Village, town, and city streets, plazas, and open spaces are common property and subject to regulation by civic authority. A plaza joins a public esplanade which is planned to eventually connect all of Tacoma's waterfront. Development of an urban center and plaza - a public open space with an academic building and retail stores - required 10 different funding sources. The recent external works have upgraded Bowen Street from a service street into a public plaza. Many new schools are incorporating secure outdoor play areas, courtyards and plazas, enabling students to go outside to eat, socialize and study in an easily supervised setting. Synonyms marketplace, close, quadrangle, quad, courtyard 2A shopping center. 〈北美〉购物中心 they bought fancy bridal wear at the plaza Example sentencesExamples Sometimes it takes a new store or shopping plaza to wake a small business owner. That building burned down, and now there's a rather awful-looking shopping plaza in its place. People are waiting in long lines even at shopping plazas since news of a shortage of vaccine surfaced last month. In a bid to make the most of the evening I stormed the shopping plaza right across the hotel. At malls and huge shopping plazas, you get pushed and jostled. A mall, of course, is not that far removed from a shopping plaza. Just right for walking back to my car way down the road in the shopping plaza where we left it. Paddy fields and orchards have given way to shopping plazas and industrial buildings. Customers vouch for the convenience of shopping in a plaza without the hassle of elbowing through a crowded market. In designing our modern conveniences - groceries, retail, strip plazas, motels, banks - traffic planners assume that people will not walk more than 300 ft. Shopping plazas have sprung up in every imaginable location of this sleepy town. Remake them as outdoor shopping plazas, reminiscent of the town centers they replaced. Built just eight years ago, its bright blue, green, and white facade still glows from a hillside overlooking a bustling shopping plaza. He expects to develop the retail plaza but most likely would sell the hotel and apartment property to developers. The speaker system played an unobtrusive drumming music that was perfectly suited for the food and a nice change from the normal quiet interspersed with chatter that occurs in most of the plaza restaurants. I am now going to tell you a story from a popular shopping plaza in South Pattaya. Housed in upmarket shopping plazas, a string of outlets has come up at several locations. I finally caught up with him inside a store in one of the shopping plazas. It's more of a small indoor shopping plaza with retail stores and the like. Grant plays the affable front man for his family, who build condos and shopping plazas for a ridiculous profit. Synonyms shopping centre, shopping precinct, shopping complex 2.1US A service area on a highway, typically with a gas station and restaurants. Example sentencesExamples At a service plaza near Mishawaka and Kokomo, a tourist brochure caught my eye. The Travel Plaza, a family operated truck stop, has proudly served the trucking industry and the general motoring public for over 30 years. This old service plaza is very small by today's standards, but provides a great service and a good dose of history. Now he was on the road and had gone to Truckers' Church at a service plaza that morning. That didn't stop us from going out to the northwest to our open field five miles south of the Okahumpka service plaza on the Florida turnpike. Origin Late 17th century: from Spanish, literally ‘place’.
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