Atrium vs Plaza - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between atrium and plaza

is that atrium is atrium (a square hall lit from above) while plaza is beach.

(wikipedia atrium)

(en-noun)

(architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.

(architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

(anatomy) Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.

* {{quote-book, 1965, Janet Kircher Warter, Palynology of a Lignite of Lower Eocene (Wilcox) Age from Kemper County citation

, passage=Nexine 0.5? thick, separating from the sexine about 5? from the pore and forming a deep, well-defined atrium .}}

* (room in Roman homes) cavaedium

(en noun)

a town’s public square.

an open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches.

* square

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