| 单词 | plaza |
| 释义 | plaza (once / 1379 pages) n A plaza is an urban park or square, or another public space where people can walk, sit, and congregate. You might, for example, tell your friend to meet you in the plaza downtown with the big horse statue. There are plazas that are mainly open spaces for pedestrians, sometimes including statues, fountains, and benches, like Washington DC's Freedom Plaza or Union Square in New York. Other plazas are more commercial, offering room to stroll and sit but also stores and restaurants. In Spanish, plaza simply means "place," and the earliest plazas were built in Spanish colonies in South America and the East Indies. WORD FAMILYplaza: plazas USAGE EXAMPLESThis year, as usual, the firm invited alumni, including me, to its holiday party at the Plaza Hotel. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Shops like Ties, Shirts and More fill Beltway Plaza Mall, one of the area’s oldest shopping malls. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) “Both countries, Mexico and the United States, benefit from trade, from immigration,” Silvaja said as a band played in the plaza. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a public square with room for pedestrians they met at Elm Plaza Syn|Hyper piazza, place public square, square an open area at the meeting of two or more streets 2n 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 a good plaza should have a movie house Syn|Hyper center, mall, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet a place of business for retailing goods |
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