plaza, place, piazza
(noun) a public square with room for pedestrians; “they met at Elm Plaza”; “Grosvenor Place”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Piazza (plural Piazzas)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Piazza is the 4232nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8372 individuals. Piazza is most common among White (92.68%) individuals.
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piazza (plural piazzas or piazze)
A public square, especially in Italian cities.
(US dialects, especially, New England, dated) A veranda; a porch.
(UK) A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building).
• The plural piazze is used especially when the word refers to public squares in Italy, and plural piazzas when it refers to porches.
• In some Southern dialects, the variant form pizer is used.
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Source: Wiktionary
Pi*az"za, n.; pl. Piazzas. Etym: [It., place, square, market place, L. platea street, courtyard. See Place.]
Definition: An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda. We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas. Jer. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 February 2025
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); “They breasted the mountain”; “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
