plazan.

Brit.

/ˈplɑːzə/, U.S.

/ˈplɑzə/,

/ˈplæzə/

Forms: 1600s plassa, 1600s– plaza.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish plaza.

Etymology: < Spanish plaza open space, town square (see place n.¹). Compare piazza n. N.E.D. (1907) gives the non-naturalized pronunciation (plā·þa, plā·sa) /ˈplɑːθa/ /ˈplɑːsa/.

1. In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a public square, a marketplace.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > open space > public square

placeOE

streetOE

foruma1464

pomery1533

piazza1583

agora1591

pomerium1598

plazaa1661

squarea1684

piazzetta1730

town square1769

place1793

Pnyx1820

zocalo1884

plaza1948

a1661 R. Bargrave Trav. Diary (1999) 180 Beside the Plassa is the Cities Magazene for Corne, & over that is theyr Armorie.

1683 J. Salgado (title) An impartial and brief description of the Plaza, or sumptuous market-place of Madrid.

1798 G. H. Noehden Don Carlos i. iii. 21 And how gay it soon will be in Madrid! The Plaza Major already is preparing for a bull-fight; and they have promised us an auto da fe.

1826 F. B. Head Rough Notes Pampas 176 In the centre of the town there is a Plaza or great square.

1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. vii. 442 The Spanish soldiery assembled by torch-light in the plaza to witness the execution of the sentence.

1884 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang xxiii. 307 Old Gen. Ignacio Barterra ‘cussed’ a forty-foot steeple on the old church on the plaza.

1926 Travel Nov. 33/2 In front of the church is a rocky plaza leaking with grass, with water rushing into two big, oblong stone basins.

1995 Daily Tel. 8 July 14/7 Crowds of jubilant Mexicans thronged the city's plazas into the early hours yesterday, singing and dancing to mariachi bands.

2. Originally and chiefly North American. A large paved area surrounded by or adjacent to shops and businesses, usually designed as a feature of a shopping complex; (hence) a shopping centre.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > open space > public square

placeOE

streetOE

foruma1464

pomery1533

piazza1583

agora1591

pomerium1598

plazaa1661

squarea1684

piazzetta1730

town square1769

place1793

Pnyx1820

zocalo1884

plaza1948

1948 Post Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 19 Dec. 28/1 Plans for this city's first planned shopping center, to be called Upland Plaza Shopping Center..were announced yesterday.

1957 Times 2 Dec. 13/1 Shopping..is simplified [in Canada] by the presence of suburban shopping plazas..an enormous parking lot encircled by branches of the down-town stores.

1969 Guardian 15 July 10/6 There is no place nearer to hell than the all-under-one-roof shopping ‘plaza’.

1975 N.Y. Times 16 Oct. 43/6 Scheduled for completion in one year, it will have 24 tennis courts, 14 tennis ‘alleys’ for practice,..and a 13,000-square-foot covered plaza, including an arcade, between 56th and 57th Streets.

1995 Canad. Forum May 9/2 I was dropped off at a capacious bus terminal, surrounded on all sides by malls, plazas, gasbars, superstores, parkades and six-lane highways.

2000 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. i. 26/4 Dolly Luwisch, a ..real estate broker whose office overlooks the plaza's parking lot, called the shopping center an eyesore.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plaza
释义	plazan. Brit. /ˈplɑːzə/, U.S. /ˈplɑzə/, /ˈplæzə/ Forms: 1600s plassa, 1600s– plaza. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish plaza. Etymology: < Spanish plaza open space, town square (see place n.¹). Compare piazza n. N.E.D. (1907) gives the non-naturalized pronunciation (plā·þa, plā·sa) /ˈplɑːθa/ /ˈplɑːsa/. 1. In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a public square, a marketplace. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > open space > public square placeOE streetOE foruma1464 pomery1533 piazza1583 agora1591 pomerium1598 plazaa1661 squarea1684 piazzetta1730 town square1769 place1793 Pnyx1820 zocalo1884 plaza1948 a1661 R. Bargrave Trav. Diary (1999) 180 Beside the Plassa is the Cities Magazene for Corne, & over that is theyr Armorie. 1683 J. Salgado (title) An impartial and brief description of the Plaza, or sumptuous market-place of Madrid. 1798 G. H. Noehden Don Carlos i. iii. 21 And how gay it soon will be in Madrid! The Plaza Major already is preparing for a bull-fight; and they have promised us an auto da fe. 1826 F. B. Head Rough Notes Pampas 176 In the centre of the town there is a Plaza or great square. 1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. vii. 442 The Spanish soldiery assembled by torch-light in the plaza to witness the execution of the sentence. 1884 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang xxiii. 307 Old Gen. Ignacio Barterra ‘cussed’ a forty-foot steeple on the old church on the plaza. 1926 Travel Nov. 33/2 In front of the church is a rocky plaza leaking with grass, with water rushing into two big, oblong stone basins. 1995 Daily Tel. 8 July 14/7 Crowds of jubilant Mexicans thronged the city's plazas into the early hours yesterday, singing and dancing to mariachi bands. 2. Originally and chiefly North American. A large paved area surrounded by or adjacent to shops and businesses, usually designed as a feature of a shopping complex; (hence) a shopping centre. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > open space > public square placeOE streetOE foruma1464 pomery1533 piazza1583 agora1591 pomerium1598 plazaa1661 squarea1684 piazzetta1730 town square1769 place1793 Pnyx1820 zocalo1884 plaza1948 1948 Post Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 19 Dec. 28/1 Plans for this city's first planned shopping center, to be called Upland Plaza Shopping Center..were announced yesterday. 1957 Times 2 Dec. 13/1 Shopping..is simplified [in Canada] by the presence of suburban shopping plazas..an enormous parking lot encircled by branches of the down-town stores. 1969 Guardian 15 July 10/6 There is no place nearer to hell than the all-under-one-roof shopping ‘plaza’. 1975 N.Y. Times 16 Oct. 43/6 Scheduled for completion in one year, it will have 24 tennis courts, 14 tennis ‘alleys’ for practice,..and a 13,000-square-foot covered plaza, including an arcade, between 56th and 57th Streets. 1995 Canad. Forum May 9/2 I was dropped off at a capacious bus terminal, surrounded on all sides by malls, plazas, gasbars, superstores, parkades and six-lane highways. 2000 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. i. 26/4 Dolly Luwisch, a ..real estate broker whose office overlooks the plaza's parking lot, called the shopping center an eyesore. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1661
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