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

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.

From BBC

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Salon

Bernstein mourned the fate of the Palisades’ Business Block, a Spanish Colonial Revival shopping plaza from 1924.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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