[
US
/ˈpɫæzə, ˈpɫɑzə/
]
[ UK /plˈɑːzɐ/ ]
[ UK /plˈɑːzɐ/ ]
NOUN
-
mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace
they spent their weekends at the local malls
a good plaza should have a movie house -
a public square with room for pedestrians
they met at Elm Plaza
Grosvenor Place
How To Use plaza In A Sentence
- Veracruz City's Plaza de Armas or zócalo is alive with smiling people and food, chotchke and balloon vendors. There's a lot to see and do in Veracruz, Mexico
- I drew for him a sectional view of the area, indicating the staircase and plaza above.
- At malls and huge shopping plazas, you get pushed and jostled.
- I finally caught up with him inside a store in one of the shopping plazas.
- The next morning, I head out early and stop first at Plaza Mayor, a huge square surrounded by some of the oldest buildings in the city.
- We were driving most unaggressively across a small plaza, with a driver and a friend on the box beside him to help keep us from harm, when a trolley-car came wildly round a corner at the speed of at least two miles an hour and crossed our track. Familiar Spanish Travels
- But I nary not mention my displeasure and dread and off we embarked to Spencer's Plaza on a journey of discovery.
- He has no problem with council handiwork such as the O'Connell Street plaza being ripped up, if necessary.
- It seemed to be broadcasting the demonstration in the plaza. DESPERADOES
- In Queretaro: Cheap but clean and just a few blocks west of the Plaza de Armas, The Hotel Senorial, probably about $24 dols/day. The colonial cities