Times Square
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2.7
- proper noun
- /taɪmz skwɛr/
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Times Square
- The famous ball drop at Times Square marks the start of the new year.
Times Square, out of every place else in the world, Times Square had fallen asleep.
- Times Square, out of every place else in the world, Times Square had fallen asleep.
- When I was a kid, I bought this shirt at a a Times Square gift shop.
- And it was a huge billboard on top of the NASDAQ center in Times Square and the market site.
- And so much life happens in Manhattan, but especially in Times Square.
- You know, we had a joke about the people who sell bags, fake designer handbags in Times Square, and they'll sometimes have a letter off.
- Like like you've seen on the billboards that wrap around Times Square, that this is a compound curved LED screen, OK.
Examples
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If I go to New York City, who will I meet in the middle of Times Square?
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A billboard in Times Square calling her out on some of her nonsense.
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We are back, live in Times Square.
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When I was a kid, I bought this shirt at a a Times Square gift shop.
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I'm in Times Square right now.
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Ray and Rita had come by bus for a weekend in a hotel not far from Times Square.
Fiction book (2000) -
In New York City, thousands of people have gathered to watch updates of the mission in Times Square.
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Cereal is now seen and heard on the big screen in Times Square.
Fiction book (1995) -
So I'm going to take the kids and try to let them see Times Square and we're going to go to the Rockefeller tree.
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And for our international viewers who always say they want to see more of the kind of places that we go in America, this is Times Square for you guys.
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a toponym whose specific referent (a famous plaza in Manhattan) cannot be deduced from the constituents: while 'square' suggests a plaza, 'times' does not transparently indicate the New York Times or that particular location. Recognizing Times Square requires cultural/world knowledge rather than simple compositional interpretation, so a B1 learner who only knows the parts would not reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Times Square comes from when the newspaper 'The New York Times' moved its offices to an open city square and put its name Times on the big building there. Because of the paper, the bright signs, theatres and big events like the New Year's ball, Times Square became the busy, famous place it is today.