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单词 piazza
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Definition of piazza in English:

piazza

noun pɪˈatsə
  • 1A public square or marketplace, especially in an Italian town.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The long-term scheme is expected to have a market square or piazza and an architectural feature to provide focal points and increase the use of the site throughout the year.
    • Here, folks stop to ‘take a coffee’ in one of the town's many piazzas, or public squares, as well as chat with friends during the nightly passeggiata, or evening stroll.
    • He said the proposed office blocks and apartments would be linked to the city centre and included a number of public squares, parks and piazzas.
    • Here will be the social arena of the whole community, with an arcade round the piazza serving shops, offices and cafes.
    • The tradition dates back to the 16th century, when Italian war veterans decorated piazzas with pastel images of the Madonna to earn donations from pilgrims.
    • In the late 1400s, northern Italian magic tales were publicly performed in city piazzas, sung or recited, and members of the audience could buy printed sheets from which the performers had taken their cues.
    • The presence of the conference centre necessitated a cut in the toroidal form so that a public piazza serving both old and new buildings could be created between them.
    • The centre has a huge public piazza and in town centres such as this the entire development should be taken into account.
    • The piazzas of each town or village are famous for the parading of people through them at night with friends and relatives.
    • There is a piazza - or square - around almost every corner.
    • His splendid piazza in Vancouver, which gently makes green public terraces in the middle of the city to greet the court building is surely one of the great triumphs of twentieth-century urban design.
    • Beaches are popular recreation areas, especially with young people, who also enjoy ‘hanging out’ at the local piazza, or town square.
    • The 7500 square metre piazza, to which the parvis is linked, is calculated to cater for a crowd of 15 000 people.
    • More reminiscent of a film set than a real-life town, it boasts piazzas, churches and palaces aplenty, and offers an insight into the local heritage.
    • An exchange of land was agreed and outline planning consent was granted in March 1962 for two towers facing on to an open piazza.
    • Before the fire, he revealed plans for three apartment blocks and an Italian-style piazza.
    • You approach the Centre from the piazza under a huge metal portico.
    • Throughout the book he provides precise information about streets, piazzas, and squares where certain events took place.
    • A public piazza will face the River Thames and create a new riverside walkway and wetlands area.
    • A glazed atrium to lead people around a new town centre piazza to the market hall could also be included in the design.
    Synonyms
    marketplace, close, quadrangle, quad, courtyard
  • 2US archaic The veranda of a house.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Enjoy your beautifully landscaped yard from your rear piazza, or your side gazebo as the warm island breezes encircles your family with comfort.
    • The rear piazza is inset between small rooms which flank and open onto it.
    • Replicated in countless subsequent homes and public buildings, the piazza acts as a graceful connector between indoors and out.
    • The family also built a new detached kitchen directly behind the rear piazza and converted the fireplaces in the principal rooms of the main floor to coal.

Origin

Late 16th century: Italian.

  • place from Old English:

    If you have been to Italy or Spain you have probably visited the piazza or plaza of a town. These words have the same origin as English place and French place ‘(public) square’, namely Latin platea ‘open space’, from Greek plateia hodos ‘broad way’. From the early Middle Ages, when it was adopted from French, place superseded stow (found in place names such as Stow on the Wold and Padstow) and stead, as in Wanstead. The sense ‘a space that can be occupied’ developed in Middle English from this. The orderly person's mantra a place for everything and everything in its place goes back to the 17th century, but the modern formulation first appears in the 1840s in Captain Frederick Marryat's nautical yarn Masterman Ready: ‘In a well-conducted man-of-war…every thing in its place, and there is a place for every thing.’ In 1897 the German Chancellor Prince Bernhard von Bülow, made a speech in the Reichstag in which he declared, ‘we desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our place in the sun’. As a result the expression a place in the sun, ‘a position of favour or advantage’, has been associated with German nationalism. However, it is recorded much earlier, and is traceable back to the writings of the 17th-century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal.

 
 

Definition of piazza in US English:

piazza

nounpēˈäzə
  • 1A public square or marketplace, especially in an Italian town.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A public piazza will face the River Thames and create a new riverside walkway and wetlands area.
    • Beaches are popular recreation areas, especially with young people, who also enjoy ‘hanging out’ at the local piazza, or town square.
    • Throughout the book he provides precise information about streets, piazzas, and squares where certain events took place.
    • The long-term scheme is expected to have a market square or piazza and an architectural feature to provide focal points and increase the use of the site throughout the year.
    • The presence of the conference centre necessitated a cut in the toroidal form so that a public piazza serving both old and new buildings could be created between them.
    • Here will be the social arena of the whole community, with an arcade round the piazza serving shops, offices and cafes.
    • The 7500 square metre piazza, to which the parvis is linked, is calculated to cater for a crowd of 15 000 people.
    • The piazzas of each town or village are famous for the parading of people through them at night with friends and relatives.
    • Before the fire, he revealed plans for three apartment blocks and an Italian-style piazza.
    • He said the proposed office blocks and apartments would be linked to the city centre and included a number of public squares, parks and piazzas.
    • A glazed atrium to lead people around a new town centre piazza to the market hall could also be included in the design.
    • In the late 1400s, northern Italian magic tales were publicly performed in city piazzas, sung or recited, and members of the audience could buy printed sheets from which the performers had taken their cues.
    • There is a piazza - or square - around almost every corner.
    • Here, folks stop to ‘take a coffee’ in one of the town's many piazzas, or public squares, as well as chat with friends during the nightly passeggiata, or evening stroll.
    • His splendid piazza in Vancouver, which gently makes green public terraces in the middle of the city to greet the court building is surely one of the great triumphs of twentieth-century urban design.
    • More reminiscent of a film set than a real-life town, it boasts piazzas, churches and palaces aplenty, and offers an insight into the local heritage.
    • You approach the Centre from the piazza under a huge metal portico.
    • The tradition dates back to the 16th century, when Italian war veterans decorated piazzas with pastel images of the Madonna to earn donations from pilgrims.
    • The centre has a huge public piazza and in town centres such as this the entire development should be taken into account.
    • An exchange of land was agreed and outline planning consent was granted in March 1962 for two towers facing on to an open piazza.
    Synonyms
    marketplace, close, quadrangle, quad, courtyard
  • 2US archaic The veranda of a house.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The rear piazza is inset between small rooms which flank and open onto it.
    • The family also built a new detached kitchen directly behind the rear piazza and converted the fireplaces in the principal rooms of the main floor to coal.
    • Enjoy your beautifully landscaped yard from your rear piazza, or your side gazebo as the warm island breezes encircles your family with comfort.
    • Replicated in countless subsequent homes and public buildings, the piazza acts as a graceful connector between indoors and out.

Origin

Late 16th century: Italian.

 
 
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