Square Hotel Main Noun Bre Skweə(R Skwer Break

• first break the chocolate into squares.
• the floor was tiled in squares of grey and white marble.
• the hotel is just off the main square.
• the market/town/village square

square

1. a shape with four straight sides of equal length and four angles of 90°; a piece of something that has this shape
• see also set square
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/set-square
• First break the chocolate into squares.
• The floor was tiled in squares of grey and white marble.
2. an open area in a town, usually with four sides, surrounded by buildings
• The hotel is just off the main square.
• the market/town/village square
• They live at 95 Russell Square.
3. the number obtained when you multiply a number by itself
• See related entries: Mathematical terminology
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/mathematical_terminology/square_4
• The square of 7 is 49.
4. a person who is considered to be boring, for example because they are old-fashioned or because they work too hard at school
5. a return to the situation you were in at the beginning of a project, task, etc., because you have made no real progress
• If this suggestion isn't accepted, we'll be back to square one.

Extra Examples

• A square of light shone from the skylight.
• Cut the sandwiches into neat squares.
• The crowd filled the square.
• crowds in the market square
• the east side of the square
• The hotel is just off the main square.
• The next day, a large crowd gathered in the market square.

Word Origin

• Middle English: shortening of Old French esquare (noun), esquarre (past participle, used as an adjective), esquarrer (verb), based on Latin quadra ‘square’.