a public outdoor square especially in a town where Spanish is spoken （尤指通行西班牙语的城镇的）露天广场 Shooting broke out in the main plaza in front of the presidential palace. 总统府前的主要广场发生枪击事件。
a small shopping centre, sometimes also with offices 购物中心 a downtown shopping plaza 市中心的购物区
- (also service plaza)(both North American English)(British English service station)
an area and building next to a highway where you can buy food and gas, use the bathroom, etc. They stopped at a plaza on the interstate. 他们停在州际公路的一个广场上。
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from Spanish, literally ‘place’.