See Also: playa(medicine)
playa(dictionary)
playa(encyclopedia)
playa(dictionary)
playa (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
HOTEL PLAYA(tourism)
Med Playa Hotels(tourism)
Playa del Carmen(tourism)
Boccaccio Playa, SICAV, S.A.(finance)
Europe Playa Marina(tourism)

playa (iou)



playa noun. Orig. US. M19.
[Spanish = shore, beach, coast, from late Latin plagia: see PLAGE.]
A flat area of silt or sand, free of vegetation and usu. salty, lying at the bottom of a desert basin and dry except after rain; (more fully playa lake) a temporary lake formed after rain in such an area. M19.
In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a beach. M19.
Geography. Flat alluvial coastland. L19.