mall
//mɔːl//
Forms
- Plural
- malls
- present (v1)
- mall
- past (v2)
- malled
- past participle (v3)
- malled
- present participle
- malling
- 3rd person singular
- malls
Definitions
1.A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
- The preliminary plans provide for one million square feet of selling space in three main buildings and a double row of shops along a central shopping mall.
- America′s first pedestrianized shopping mall opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian malls, it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.
2.An enclosed shopping centre.
- Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America′s enclosed shopping malls.
3.A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
- Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.
4.A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
- Tom is still at the mall.
1.to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
2.to build up with the development of shopping malls
3.to shop at the mall(informal)
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3469
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Probably from The Mall, a major street in London, England, which was originally a pall mall alley.