plaza

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A town's public square.

   Tourists gathered in the central plaza.

2. 2
   noun

   A shopping mall.

   The hotel overlooks a busy shopping plaza.

3. 3
   noun

   mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers

4. 4
   noun

   a public square with room for pedestrians

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Simplified etymology

Plaza, the Spanish word for a public square, ultimately derives from Latin platea, “open space,” from Greek plateia hodos, “broad way.” It shares its ancestry with Italian piazza, English place, and French place.

Borrowed from Spanish plaza (“town-square or central place of gathering”), from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), clipping of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and place.

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