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say it: PLAH-zuh
plaza is a noun meaning "a public square with room for pedestrians". It is pronounced /ˈplɑzə/ — PLAH-zuh. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a public square with room for pedestrians
“they met at Elm Plaza”
“Grosvenor Place”
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”
Canada · United Kingdom
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for plaza come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.