mall
IPA: mˈɔɫ
noun
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
- An enclosed shopping centre.
- (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
- A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
- A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
- (obsolete) The game of polo.
- (obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.
verb
- to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
- to build up with the development of shopping malls
- (informal) to shop at the mall
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Examples of "mall" in Sentences
- On the floor of the mall is a casual replica of Big Ben.
- Right smackdab in the middle of the mall is the mail forwarding business.
- This beautiful urban mall—in the old sense of the word "mall"—feels very European.
- There's something very European about this beautiful urban mall, in the old sense of the word 'mall.'
- The office in the mall is a good place to ask questions, since the main office (where you take your test) is always packed with people.
- Some of those are rather flattered by the term "mall" – in the same way that shops in India claiming to be "fancy goods stores" sell neither Fabergé eggs nor Brabantia dustbins, but canisters of talcum powder.
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