plaza

1. 1.

   a public square with room for pedestrians

   “they met at Elm Plaza”

   “Grosvenor Place”

   Synonymsplacepiazza

   Broaderpublic square
2. 2.

   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”

   “they spent their weekends at the local malls”

   Synonymsmallcentershopping mallshopping centershopping centre

   Broadermercantile establishment

   Partsfood court

   Canada · United Kingdom

Other forms of plaza

plural

plazas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plaza

What does plaza mean?

plaza means "a public square with room for pedestrians". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plaza?

plaza has 2 syllables: pla-za. The stress falls on "pla". In IPA it is /ˈplɑzə/.

What is another word for plaza?

Close synonyms include place, piazza, mall, center, shopping mall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plaza a common word?

plaza is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.