shopping center

noun

: a group of retail stores and service establishments usually with ample parking facilities and usually designed to serve a community or neighborhood

called also shopping plaza

Examples of shopping center in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The 20,000-square-foot store will replace PetSmart in the Renaissance Creek shopping center at the southwest corner of Douglas and Sierra College boulevards. —Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2025

Other stores in the shopping center, meanwhile, have already begun the process of relocating. —Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025

About 20 minutes before a demonstration started in Walnut Creek, hundreds gathered in the East Bay city’s downtown shopping center. —Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025

So Dimon asked Rick Caruso, a billionaire Los Angeles developer of high-end shopping centers, for advice on how to make the space lined with retail and eateries appear more professional, according to The Journal. —Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1898, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for shopping center

• epicenter
• multicenter
• centre
• enter
• renter
• stentor
• tenter
• dissenter
• indenter
• inventor
• precentor
• preventer

Kids Definition

shopping center

noun

: a group of retail stores and service establishments usually located in a suburban area and having a large parking lot