plaza

Related topics: Roads, Trade

1. TTRAREAa public square or market place surrounded by buildings, especially in towns in Spanish-speaking countries 〔尤指讲西班牙语国家城市中的〕广场

2. BBTSHOP/STOREa group of shops and other business buildings in a town, usually with outdoor areas between them 〔城市的〕购物区，购物中心；商业区

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plaza• Those alterations included enlarged pueblos replete with central plazas and square kivas.• Oak Hill Plaza• a service plaza• Across the plaza is another exquisite colonial building, which houses the offices of the state government.• We burst from the darkness into the hard white morning heat of the plaza, at a dead run.• It showed the other Rex, who was standing on the plaza before the building waving his arms about.• In the late 1960s I went regularly to the plaza cinema in the Isles of Scilly.• By afternoon the town plaza was full.• Such renderings always show pleasant sunny weather, and slim and elegant people walking in corners of treelined plazas.• These tall, uniform boxes are set back from the street, isolated by windswept plazas.

the PlazaPlaza, then

na common name for a cinema in the UK, especially in the past

Origin plaza

(1600-1700) Spanish Latin platea; → PLACE1

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