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PIAZZA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does piazza mean?
• PIAZZA (noun)
The noun PIAZZA has 1 sense:
1. a public square with room for pedestrians
Familiarity information: PIAZZA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A public square with room for pedestrians
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Context example:
Grosvenor Place
Hypernyms ("piazza" is a kind of...):
public square; square (an open area at the meeting of two or more streets)
Context examples
The parlor windows were closed and curtained, no picture of the pretty wife sewing on the piazza, in white, with a distracting little bow in her hair, or a bright-eyed hostess, smiling a shy welcome as she greeted her guest.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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