mall

Plural: malls

Noun

• a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
• mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace
  • "they spent their weekends at the local malls"
• A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
• An enclosed shopping centre.
• 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.
• The game of polo.
• An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.

Verb

Verb Forms: malled, malling, malls

• To maul; to handle roughly.
• to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
• to build up with the development of shopping malls
• to shop at the mall

Examples

• Don’t mall your dictionary in frustration when a challenge fails.

Synonyms

center, plaza, promenade, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall

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