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🏙️ A public square 🛍️ A shopping center
plaza

plaza

81 3.5
A group of shops and restaurants with parking and outdoor space
  • noun
  • /ˈplæzə/
  • US
translation icon : centro comercial
  • A sign pointed the way to a Comfort Plaza and a Currency Exchange.
  • a shopping plaza
  • a new shopping plaza

Examples

  • I'll be at the Plaza.

    Working Girls (1987)

  • The one movie theater in the plaza is showing something they have already seen.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • East Side Plaza for me, please.

    Shallow Hal (2001)

  • Come by the Plaza Hotel.

    King of New York (1990)

  • When we arrived at the Plaza, it was already beginning to fill up.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • We can stay at the Plaza.

    Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

  • I'll put you up at the Plaza.

    Two for the Money (2005)

  • Welcome to the Rodeo Plaza Hotel.

    Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)

  • The main pedestrian area in Mexico, heading all the way there is Ocala, which is the big Plaza and a whole bunch of shops and historic things along the way.

  • The new shopping center features a plaza filled with restaurants and boutique stores.

Synonyms

mall
vsplaza
  • US
545 1.0

A large indoor building with many shops and places to eat

is more open and landscaped serving as a social marketplace
shopping mall
vsplaza
  • US
62 1.0

A large building or outdoor area with many shops and restaurants

is more often an open landscaped gathering place resembling a market
shopping center
vsplaza
  • US
38 1.6

A large building with many shops and places to eat

is more open and landscaped acting as a community marketplace
strip mall
vsplaza
  • US
20 3.0

A row of stores and restaurants with a parking lot in front along a busy road

is more open landscaped and arranged as a communal shopping square
galleria
vsplaza
1 5.2

A large covered space with shops and restaurants and often a glass roof

is more open and landscaped rather than a covered arcade

Compounds

toll plaza
1 3.2

A place on a road where drivers stop to pay money

How Big

shopping mall
  • US
62 1.0
plaza
  • US
81 3.5
strip mall
  • US
20 3.0
stall
38 1.0
kiosk
32 3.3

Surface Forms

plaza singular
plazas plural

Etymology

Plaza comes from Spanish plaza, which in turn comes from an old Latin word platea meaning 'broad street' or 'open place'. Think of a Spanish square where shops meet people, so in English plaza can mean a shopping centre or a group of shops around an open area.