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

Elk Grove officials Tuesday frowned at the news but said the city would be working with The Ridge shopping center to fill the space. —Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 28 Jan. 2026

About the new Charlotte Premium Outlets stores The new stores will join about 105 others at the open-air shopping center in southwest Charlotte. —Charlotte Observer, 28 Jan. 2026

Tighter deadlines, clawback protections In 2017, the Shawnee City Council approved the $113 million project to refresh the shopping center and accompanying tax incentives. —Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2026

Exterior signs went up recently announcing PopUp Bagels’ entry into Inwood Village, the shopping center at West Lovers Lane and Inwood Road near the Devonshire and Bluffview neighborhoods in Dallas. —Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026

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