mall
Americannoun
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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.
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a large area, usually lined with shade trees and shrubbery, used as a public walk or promenade.
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Chiefly Upstate New York. a strip of land, usually planted or paved, separating lanes of opposite traffic on highways, boulevards, etc.
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the game of pall-mall.
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the mallet used in the game of pall-mall.
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the place or alley where pall-mall was played.
noun
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a shaded avenue, esp one that is open to the public
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short for shopping mall
Etymology
Origin of mall
1635–45; the Mall, a fashionable tree-lined promenade in 18th-century London, where originally the game pall-mall ( def. ) was played; mell 2
Example Sentences
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Now luxury hotels and shopping malls, high-rise apartment blocks, state-of-the-art airport departure terminals are getting sporadically hit as gaps appear in the Arab states' air defences in the Gulf.
From BBC
Goldie told BBC Scotland News people were being "cautious" but there was still "normality" with roads busy and malls and hotels open.
From BBC
In California, license plates are tracked not only by the federal government and law enforcement, but also by schools and businesses, including some Home Depots and malls.
From Los Angeles Times
There’s plenty of places in the mall with tables, you can just sit down and have your own little feast there.
From Los Angeles Times
Most of its 32 department stores are in malls, a way of retail left for dead by many.
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