What does plaza mean?
Definitions for plaza
ˈplɑ zə, ˈplæz əplaza
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word plaza.
Princeton's WordNet
plaza, place, piazzanoun
a public square with room for pedestrians
"they met at Elm Plaza"; "Grosvenor Place"
plaza, mall, center, shopping mall, shopping center, shopping centrenoun
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"
Wiktionary
plazanoun
a town's public square.
plazanoun
an open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches.
Etymology: From plaza, from platea, from πλατεῖα, shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός.
Wikipedia
Plaza
A town square (or square, plaza, public square, city square, urban square, or piazza) is an open public space, commonly found in the heart of a traditional town but not necessarily a true geometric square, used for community gatherings. Related concepts are the civic center, the market square and the village green. Most squares are hardscapes suitable for open markets, concerts, political rallies, and other events that require firm ground. Being centrally located, town squares are usually surrounded by small shops such as bakeries, meat markets, cheese stores, and clothing stores. At their center is often a well, monument, statue or other feature. Those with fountains are sometimes called fountain squares.
ChatGPT
plaza
A plaza is an open public space, typically in urban settings, often surrounded by buildings, shops, or architectural elements. It is usually designed for pedestrian use and often used for public gatherings or social activities. This term can also refer to a shopping complex or center.
Webster Dictionary
Plazanoun
a public square in a city or town
Etymology: [Sp. See Place.]
Wikidata
Plaza
A plaza is an open urban public space, such as a city square. All through Spanish America and the Spanish East Indies, the plaza mayor of each center of administration held three closely related institutions: the cathedral, the cabildo or administrative center, which might be incorporated in a wing of a governor's palace, and the audiencia or law court. The plaza might be large enough to serve as a military parade ground. At times of crisis or fiesta, it was the space where a large crowd might gather. Like the Italian piazza, the plaza remains a center of community life that is only equaled by the market-place. Most colonial cities in Spanish America and the Philippines were planned around a square plaza de armas, where troops could be mustered, as the name implies, surrounded by the governor's palace and the main church. A plaza de toros is a bullring. In modern usage, a plaza can be any gathering place on a street or between buildings, a street intersection with a statue, etc. Today's metropolitan landscapes often incorporate the "plaza" as a design element, or as an outcome of zoning regulations, building budgetary constraints, and the like. Sociologist William H. Whyte conducted an extensive study of plazas in New York City: his study humanized the way modern urban plazas are conceptualized, and helped usher in significant design changes in the making of plazas.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
PLAZA
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Plaza is ranked #5709 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Plaza surname appeared 6,075 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Plaza.
74% or 4,496 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
19.2% or 1,170 total occurrences were White.
4% or 248 total occurrences were Asian.
1.7% or 107 total occurrences were Black.
0.7% or 48 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.1% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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La Paz
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of plaza in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of plaza in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of plaza in a Sentence
When we were back home I would imagine racing against him in my head on the little plaza in my home town (of Negrar).
President Donald Trump said OK. We paid the fee, but President Donald Trump also said,' The only way you can use The Plaza on a soundstage is if I'm in the movie,' so we agreed to put President Donald Trump in the movie, and when we screened it for the first time the oddest thing happened : People cheered when President Donald Trump showed up on-screen. So I said to my editor,' Leave him in the movie. It's a moment for the audience.' But he did bully his way into the movie.
We need for Alamo Plaza to have the kind of reverence and respect for history that we see in places like the battlefield at Gettysburg and at the monuments at Pearl Harbor.
It is probable that many people from surrounding areas gathered for special occasions, possibly tied to calendrical cycles, the rituals probably involved processions along the causeways and within the rectangular plaza. The people also deposited symbolic objects such as jade axes in the center of the plateau.
It is food terrorism and it is the terrorism of the boss who has already left. This is chaos and you're seeing this chaos in (La Paz's) Plaza Villarroel with more than 5,000 people just there to choose a chicken.
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- ميدانArabic
- meydanAzerbaijani
- пло́шчаBelarusian
- пло́щадBulgarian
- plaçaCatalan, Valencian
- náměstíCzech
- torvDanish
- PlatzGerman
- placoEsperanto
- plazaSpanish
- plats, väljakEstonian
- میدانPersian
- placeFrench
- plazaIrish
- כיכרHebrew
- चौकHindi
- térHungarian
- հրապարակArmenian
- lapanganIndonesian
- placoIdo
- torgIcelandic
- piazzaItalian
- 広場Japanese
- მოედანიGeorgian
- 廣場, 광장Korean
- plateaLatin
- aikštėLithuanian
- skvērsLatvian
- пло́штадMacedonian
- талбайMongolian
- dataranMalay
- plass, torgNorwegian
- pleinDutch
- plass, torgNorwegian Nynorsk
- plaçaOccitan
- placPolish
- praçaPortuguese
- piațăRomanian
- пло́щадьRussian
- trg, тргSerbo-Croatian
- námestieSlovak
- trgSlovene
- torgSwedish
- meydanTurkish
- мәйданTatar
- пло́ща, майда́нUkrainian
- 廣場, quảng trườngVietnamese
- 广场Chinese
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