public square

Questions about public square

What does public square mean?

public square means "an open area at the meeting of two or more streets". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for public square?

Close synonyms include square, agora. 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 public square a common word?

public square is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.