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plaza
[ plah-zuh, plaz-uh ]
noun
- a public square or open space in a city or town.
- an area along an expressway where public facilities, as service stations and restrooms, are available.
plaza
/ ˈplaθa; ˈplɑːzə /
noun
- an open space or square, esp in Spain or a Spanish-speaking country
- a modern complex of shops, buildings, and parking areas
- ( capital when part of a name )
Rockefeller Plaza
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of plaza1
Example Sentences
The normally bustling plazas around the State House were empty.
You would be reasonably close, to be able to protest and express your view, but nobody belongs on the Capitol plaza.
“They’re not only fighting for major plazas and smuggling routes, but they’re also fighting for corners,” Calderón said.
Like a public plaza playground-y, there are kids and people climbing on stuff — but shops, and llama signs.
One Saturday, a man from Providence, Rhode Island, stopped her in the plaza and asked for help registering some seniors back in his state.
In her struggle to find her daughter, Esther becomes one of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
The Plaza Hotel cooked a fancy-pants latke with red wine braised oxtail, horseradish sunchoke cream, and crispy kale.
A crate of the stuff arrived at the studio, compliments of the Plaza Athénée.
When they do dine, the Hitchcocks sometimes use Limoges china marked “Plaza Athénée.”
In August, Trump filed a lawsuit to have his name removed from the casino and from the nearby, since-closed Trump Plaza.
This rampart of dwellings was in the shape of a rectangle, and enclosed a large square or plaza containing a noble reservoir.
Twenty men and twenty women advanced to the centre of the plaza in double file and faced each other.
The Plaza was full of people, women talking under the stiff palms, and men sitting on wicker chairs on the hotel piazza opposite.
Meantime the Plaza is being filled with chairs—rocking-chairs—which seem to spring up out of nothing.
The Plaza is still the parlor in Guadalajara and it's enchanting!
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