mall
mall
Definition
mall (môl, mäl)
noun
- Archaic
- a large, heavy mallet, used to strike the ball in the game of pall-mall
Etymology: < pall-mall
the game itself- a lane or alley where the game was played
- a shaded walk or public promenade
- ☆
- a street for pedestrians only, with shops on each side, and often with decorative plantings, benches, etc.
- a completely enclosed, air-conditioned shopping center like this
- a median strip
Etymology: var. of maul, esp. assoc. in 17th c. with (pall)-mall
mall
Synonyms
mall
n.
mall
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- outrun: Where state laws outrun the mall to bat for new york state.
- enclose: In 10 minutes we're at St. Enoch shopping center, Glasgow's biggest enclosed mall.
- shop: The annoying thing was that nearly all the buildings looked like they might be shopping malls.
- visit: Some of our company visit the mall 4 times.
- enter: Entering the main hospital mall, the facility is located in the first corridor on the left.
Adjective modifier
- out-of-town: Our planning policies would curtail the spread of out-of-town malls.
- air-conditioned: Britain's first air-conditioned shopping mall opened in North London, at Brent Cross, in the 1970s.
- suburban: S brought to where international teams to suburban malls on tribune co.
- covered: To the western edge is Queensway with the popular High Street shopping and covered mall called Whitley's.
- indoor: You'll find all the major high street names either in the pedestrianized shopping area or the modern indoor shopping mall.
- pedestrian: Telford has a large indoor pedestrian shopping mall with extensive parking.
Modifies a noun
- rat: Downtown fashionistas and suburban mall rats are biting on the idea big time.
- quot: Mall development quot to the same feet to million loaded with grade.
- shopping: The Mall on the Web The best online mall shopping on the web is on ' The Mall on the Web ' .
- parking: News ) A man was shot to death Saturday in a mall parking lot following an argument over citizens band radio, police said.
Noun used with modifier
- shopping: There are also plenty of shopping malls in which to flex your credit card muscle.
- second-tier: Folks who are known that simon by second-tier malls particularly interested in.
- outlet: Come away from your outlet malls, nature calls.
- strip: Lenders are usually available locally and are most often found near strip malls or smaller establishments.
- designer: For keen shoppers, the designer malls are nearby.
