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  2. Town square - Wikipedia

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    A town square (or public square, urban square, or simply square), also called a plaza or piazza, is an open public space commonly found in the heart of a traditional town, and which is used for community gatherings. A square in a city may be called a city square. Related concepts are the civic center, the market square and the village green.

  3. City square (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A City square is another name for a town square. City square may also refer to: Urban park type List of city squares by size; City Square, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; City Square (MBTA station), Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States; City Square (skyscraper), a skyscraper in Perth, Western Australia; City Square Mall, Singapore

  4. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    First reference gives the word as the local pronunciation of go out; the second as "A water-pipe under the ground. A sewer. A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea." Reen is a Somerset word, not used in the Fens. Gout appears to be cognate with the French égout, "sewer". Though the modern mind associates ...

  5. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  6. Maidan - Wikipedia

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    Maidan is an originally Persian word for a town square or public gathering place (Persian: میدان), adopted by various other languages: Urdu میدان (maidān); Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān); Turkish meydan; Georgian მოედანი (moedani); Bangla ময়দান, meaning field, and Crimean Tatar, from which Ukrainian also borrowed maidan. [1]

  7. List of fictional towns in literature - Wikipedia

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    Great Gusliar is a small, seemingly-quiet town that happens to attract all kinds of science-fiction phenomena, including aliens, time travelers, magical creatures, mad scientists. It is based upon the town of Veliky Ustyug, which itself stated in-universe to be a rival to Great Gusliar. Great Hangleton, England J. K. Rowling

  8. Plateia - Wikipedia

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    The original ancient Greek word (plural plateiai) meant one of the (usually 3) main streets in an ancient Greek city such as Naples. [1] The stenopoi, narrower, mainly north-south, streets were placed between the plateia in the orthogonal town plan to form rectangular blocks for buildings.

  9. List of city squares - Wikipedia

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    Old Town Square (Stary Rynek) Red Square (Czerwony Rynek) Freedom Square (Plac Wolności) – Olecko, largest market square in Poland; Old Market Square (Stary Rynek) – Poznań; Plac Grunwaldzki – Szczecin; In Toruń: Old Town Market Square (Rynek Staromiejski), UNESCO World Heritage Site; New Town Market Square (Rynek Nowomiejski), UNESCO ...