noun
1.
Also called shopping mall. a large retail complex containing a variety of stores and often restaurants and other business establishments housed in a series of connected or adjacent buildings or in a single large building. Compare shopping center.
2.
a large area, usually lined with shade trees and shrubbery, used as a public walk or promenade.
3.
Chiefly Upstate New York. a strip of land, usually planted or paved, separating lanes of opposite traffic on highways, boulevards, etc.
4.
the game of pall-mall.
5.
the mallet used in the game of pall-mall.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a shaded avenue, esp one that is open to the public |
| 2. | (US), (Canadian), (Austral), (NZ) short for shopping mall |
| [C17: after The Mall, in St James's Park, London. See | |
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Word Origin & History
mall
1737, "shaded walk serving as a promenade," from The Mall, broad, tree-lined promenade in St. James's Park, London (1674), formerly an open alley that was used to play pall-mall, a croquet-like game involving hitting a ball with a mallet through a ring, from Fr. pallemaille, from It. pallamaglio, from
palla "ball" (see balloon) + maglio "mallet." Modern sense of "enclosed shopping gallery" is from 1963. Mall rat is from 1986.
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mall definition
World-Wide WebA collection of World-Wide Web documents featuring commercial products and services, usually served by one particualr Internet access provider.
(1995-04-10)
Example sentences
The fee was a piece of a shopping mall he also owned.
The small dots of light would be individual street lights, and the large patch might be a shopping mall.
Someone in a shopping mall, for example, might hold up his hand and see a map appear instantly at his fingertips.
Stroll around this sizable mall for some window-shopping and take in the giant sculptures.
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