shopping plaza

noun

1. a complex of stores, banks, movie theaters, etc.; shopping center.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopping plaza¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

It’s one of the most infamous Mexican restaurants in the country, a sprawling complex in a run-down suburban shopping plaza lampooned since its 1974 opening as everything from a Mexican Disneyland to a cultural hate crime for its forever fiesta atmosphere.

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In a shopping plaza an hour outside Toronto, flanked by a day spa and a shawarma joint, sits a two-storey building with blue tinted windows reflecting the summer sun.

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Homeland Security Investigations agents began searching for Calderon over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, eventually tracking her down to the parking lot of a shopping plaza in Bakersfield.

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Tucked into a Chinatown shopping plaza, the modern Filipino restaurant Lasita is typically bursting with energy.

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Even the bathrooms are opulent in that uncanny, chain-restaurant way: part suburban shopping plaza, part Ancient Egyptian bathhouse, all backlit marble and echoing tile.

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Related Words

• bazaar 
• boutique 
• co-op 
• discount store 
• flea market 
• mall 
• mart 
• outlet 
• shop 
• shopping center 
• supermarket