Definition of "piazza" [pi•az•za]

• A public square in an Italian town. (noun)
• A roofed and arcaded passageway; a colonnade. (noun)
• New England & Southern Atlantic U.S. A veranda. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "No one is sure why the term piazza survives here while vanishing most everywhere else, but"
• "In the piazza is a stone monument dedicated to workers killed while building the Frejus rail tunnel linking Italy and France."
• "The piazza is always dirty and noisy – that goes without saying – but on"