piazza
pronunciation
How to pronounce piazza in British English:
UK [piˈætsə]
How to pronounce piazza in American English:
US [piˈɑzə]
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- Noun:
- a public square with room for pedestrians
Word Origin
- piazza
- piazza: see place
- piazza (n.)
- 1580s, "public square in an Italian town," from Italian piazza, from Latin platea "courtyard, broad street," from Greek plateia (hodos) "broad (street);" see place (n.). According to OED, mistakenly applied in English 1640s to the colonnade of Covent Garden, designed by Inigo Jones, rather than to the marketplace itself; hence "the verandah of a house" (1724, chiefly American English).
Example
- 1. The church is a short walk from Piazza Dante .
- 2. They kept to the sides of the street as they walked toward the piazza .
- 3. We have , I think , a private room in the Piazza del popolo ;
- 4. Planting of Trees for Landscape Greening on Alkali-saline Soil in the Beach Phoenix Piazza
- 5. They went to the piazza , where the crowd was rather less riotous than before .