"public square" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "public squares",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "public square (plural public squares)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places",
          "orig": "en:Places",
          "parents": [
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 18, Jason Parham, quoting Sarah J. Jackson, “There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter”, in Wired, →ISSN:",
          "text": "“The infrastructures of places like Mastodon and TikTok, which are wildly different from one another, of course, are too segmented to create the feeling of a truly public square,” Jackson says.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "For Musk it looked like an easy win in his effort to make Twitter the public square, especially one that attracts rightwing blowhards and steal a march on Fox News.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of town square"
      ],
      "id": "en-public_square-en-noun-AqiSJslu",
      "links": [
        [
          "town square",
          "town square#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "town square"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-public square.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/En-us-public_square.ogg/En-us-public_square.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/En-us-public_square.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "public square"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "public squares",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "public square (plural public squares)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Places"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 18, Jason Parham, quoting Sarah J. Jackson, “There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter”, in Wired, →ISSN:",
          "text": "“The infrastructures of places like Mastodon and TikTok, which are wildly different from one another, of course, are too segmented to create the feeling of a truly public square,” Jackson says.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "For Musk it looked like an easy win in his effort to make Twitter the public square, especially one that attracts rightwing blowhards and steal a march on Fox News.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of town square"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "town square",
          "town square#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "town square"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-public square.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/En-us-public_square.ogg/En-us-public_square.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/En-us-public_square.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "public square"
}