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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.
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
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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
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.
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 ...