town square
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An open area commonly found in the heart of a traditional town, used for community gatherings.
Example Sentences
- "We sit at a cafe in the crisp morning air, looking down the gradually descending town square towards the gothically vertiginous fifteenth-century St Egidius church. The platz is ringed by steeply gabled pastel burghers' houses and in the centre sits the medieval town hall."
- "In Saudi Arabia, where a relatively closed culture leaves citizens few public forums to discuss news and politics, Twitter has become a kind of town square, the place where citizens meet to swap information and debate the latest issues."
- "Mr. Musk has frequently expressed concern that Twitter’s content moderators go too far and intervene too much on the platform, which he sees as the internet’s “de facto town square.”"
- "Mr. Musk went on to say that the reason he was buying Twitter was “because it is important to the future of the civilization to have a common digital town square,” where a “wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner without resorting to violence.”"
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Places.