What's the difference between courtyard and plaza?

Courtyard


Definition:

  • (n.) A court or inclosure attached to a house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
  • (2) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
  • (3) In the silence, I heard a car reversing in the courtyard and then the Þrst slow notes of the call to prayer.
  • (4) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
  • (5) He is allowed a short, solitary walk in a courtyard each day, and is monitored by security cameras around the clock.
  • (6) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
  • (7) He went on to publish several short-story collections, including A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, set in Morocco and with an underlying theme of kif smoking.
  • (8) Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly is at the Pleasance Courtyard, 15-29 August JOSEPH MORPURGO Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joseph Morpurgo.
  • (9) Here, it’s easy to make yourself comfortable in the sweet, slightly whimsical bedrooms that open onto a serene, tree-filled courtyard.
  • (10) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
  • (11) At the Pleasance Courtyard, Have I Got News for You regular Reginald D Hunter will perform a show called Work in Progress …and Niggas , for which tickets cost £13.
  • (12) Random grenade blasts and gunfire sent ripples of tension through the crowds, tearful women ducking as explosions rocked the courtyard.
  • (13) Some face the interior courtyard, while other, more atmospheric (though also noisier) rooms overlook Alvaro Obregon Avenue.
  • (14) "We were in the courtyard [of Millbank] and people were smashing through the glass to get into the building and saying 'Come in', so we just went into the building," said Olivia Wedderburn, 18, from east London.
  • (15) As an added bonus there is a shady courtyard area – which is just as well because people who get a table inside don’t move.
  • (16) 73 Kloof Street, +27 21 424 6169, onceincapetown.co.za The Backpack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Founder-owners Toni Shina and Lee Harris have created a homely hostel spread across four adjoining houses with cool courtyards and flowery gardens, a chillout lounge, communal kitchen, health-food cafe and terrace bar.
  • (17) I saw one soldier on the wall of the courtyard shooting inside.” Another witness said he saw soldiers setting fire to the clinic later that afternoon.
  • (18) Then he stepped over the bodies and chased children into the school courtyard where witnesses said he pursued a child, the eight-year-old daughter of the principal, grabbed her by the hair, pulled her to him and shot her at close range.
  • (19) In Raj Beti's courtyard, the evening light fades, leaving her face in shadow.
  • (20) His awareness of US technical capabilities was such that he would wear a cowboy hat when out in the courtyard of his villa to make it impossible for him to be identified by hovering drones and surveillance satellites.

Plaza


Definition:

  • (n.) A public square in a city or town.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following year, JFK was killed in Dealey Plaza, becoming the lost father to a grieving nation.
  • (2) The 1,127 killed at Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar are among at least 1,800 Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed in fires or building collapses since 2005.
  • (3) "Anniversaries should be to celebrate good things, not something like Rana Plaza."
  • (4) After years of foot dragging, three global agreements have emerged in an attempt to improve matters since the Rana Plaza tragedy in April.
  • (5) WEEKEND GETAWAY Côte d'Azur TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The spring tasting menu at Alain Ducasse's restaurant at the Plaza Athénée will set you back €360 ($520).
  • (6) Last year retailers sourcing garments from Bangladesh faced similar calls to quit the country following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.
  • (7) Women also make up the majority of the 5,000 people – disabled survivors and families of victims – who are still owed compensation by the brands that used Rana Plaza.
  • (8) This week, another UK event will focus on those left in poverty by Rana Plaza.
  • (9) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.
  • (10) Clothing retailers River Island and Matalan have signed up to a factory safety deal in Bangladesh after pressure from campaigners in the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed more than 1,000 factory workers.
  • (11) Many debate where the blame lies for tragedies such as Rana Plaza, and argue over who has the responsibility to prevent them in the future.
  • (12) Women whose children and grandchildren had disappeared organized themselves as Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo to search for their missing loved ones.
  • (13) At about 10.30pm last night we received multiple calls about shots being fired from inside the plaza,” police chief John Mina told reporters.
  • (14) This is why it’s so important to name those responsible and not leave it as if this is an a-historic massacre.” Zedconte, 26, works as a consultant in Guadalajara Protest reach Plaza de la Liberacion in Guadalajara Protestors sit around an improvised podium where student victims and missing names where remembered.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shahorbanu, whose son Siddique was killed in the Rana Plaza collapse.
  • (16) On Saturday afternoons there is outdoor dancing at nearby Plaza de Danzón.
  • (17) The independent Plaza Art Cinema is a favourite of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
  • (18) She said Trump made advances on her, including groping her under the table during a dinner the following night at the Plaza Hotel.
  • (19) Two years after Rana Plaza, have conditions approved in Bangladesh’s factories?
  • (20) Prior to Rana Plaza there had already been a string of disasters in Bangladesh’s garment industry, culminating in the Tazreen factory fire that killed 112 people six months earlier.