noun
mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace
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a good plaza should have a movie house
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they spent their weekends at the local malls
• Syn: ↑plaza, ↑mall, ↑center, ↑shopping mall, ↑shopping center
• Hypernyms: ↑mercantile establishment, ↑retail store, ↑sales outlet, ↑outlet
• Part Meronyms: ↑food court
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shopping centre noun
A place where there is a concentration of shops of different kinds
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Main Entry: ↑shop
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an area where a group of different shops and businesses such as banks and restaurants are all built next to each other
Thesaurus: groups of shopshyponym
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a group of shops/stores built together, sometimes under one roof 
Example Bank:
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A developer in this suburb of Phoenix plans to build a shopping centre.
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Kendal boasts a modern shopping centre and a museum.
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The two children were left unattended in the main shopping centre.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.