Dictionary

piazza en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /piˈæ.zə/ (US)
• (UK, US)
• (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /piˈæt.sə/ (UK, US)

Etymology

From Italian piazza. Doublet of piatza, place, platz, and plaza.

Meanings

1. A public square, especially in Italian cities.
   • Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before. 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 43:
2. (New-England, US, dated, dialectal, especially) A veranda; a porch.
   • Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
3. (UK) A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building).

Forms

Deriveds

piazzaed · piazzaless · piazzalike