Synonyms for plaza
ˈplɑ zə, ˈplæz əplaza

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1. plaza, place, piazzanoun

   a public square with room for pedestrians

   "they met at Elm Plaza"; "Grosvenor Place"

   Synonyms:
   property, shoes, post, topographic point, place, shopping centre, seat, piazza, home, stead, mall, station, center, shopping center, position, office, blank space, shopping mall, space, situation, spot, lieu, berth, billet

2. 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"

   Synonyms:
   promenade, substance, center of attention, center field, meat, centre, center, snapper, core, place, marrow, sum, nerve center, shopping center, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, centerfield, gist, nerve centre, inwardness, centre of attention, pith, heart, shopping mall, mall, essence, heart and soul, shopping centre, piazza, midpoint, eye, middle

Matched Categories

1. • Mercantile Establishment
   • Public Square

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "plaza":

   square, 'esplanade, concourse, esplanade, piazza, galleria, place, position

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How to use plaza in a sentence?

1. Director Chris Columbus:

   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.

2. Ernest Sternberg:

   Back then it was thought a European model of a downtown plaza would help Buffalo revitalize itself, that concept did not work. It is hard to know how much of the decline was caused by the plaza itself or the population and business decline that was happening at the time.

3. Ernest Sternberg:

   That concept did not work. It is hard to know how much of the decline was caused by the plaza itself or the population and business decline that was happening at the time.

4. Louis Krauss:

   After it toppled over the statue broke into several pieces, which were then dragged across the plaza and dumped into the Inner Harbor.

5. City Councilman Joe Krier:

   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.