Definition
a square (shape): a shape with four equal sides (like, for example, a piece of sliced bread, a TV screen, a CD case)
a square (in a city): an area of a city with buildings on four sides (Trafalgar, Tiananmen, etc.)
Famous squares include Red Square, Trafalgar Square, and Tiananmen Square.
a square (slang): a boring, old-fashioned, conformist person (slang)
- "Art dealer : All of Plazbo's paintings feature squares and circles."
- "Here is Red Square, there is blue square, over there is black square."
- "The dark blue circle was in front of the squares, in the foreground."
- "Bruno : No, no, the small green square was inside the big red square."
- "Did the picture have a smaller red square superimposed on a larger green square?"
- "Bruno : Well, I loved the one with the squares and then the circles."
- "Art dealer : You mean the circle was behind the squares?"
- "Bruno : The two squares were covered by a dark blue circle."
- "All of the hippies, but none of the squares!"
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