mall

a large retail complex; area used as a public walk

Not to be confused with:

maul – a heavy hammer; to use roughly; to injure

moll – a female criminal

mall

(môl)

1. A large, often enclosed shopping complex containing various stores, businesses, and restaurants usually accessible by common passageways.

2. A street lined with shops and closed to vehicles.

3. A shady public walk or promenade.

4. Chiefly Upstate New York See median.

[After The Mall in London, England, originally a pall-mall alley.]

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mall

(mæl; mɔːl)

1. (Human Geography) a shaded avenue, esp one that is open to the public

2. (Commerce) US and Canadian and Austral and NZ short for shopping mall

[C17: after The Mall, in St James's Park, London. See pall-mall]

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mall

(mɔl; Brit. also mæl for 4 )

n.

1. a large retail complex containing stores and restaurants in adjacent buildings or in a single large building.

2. an urban street lined with shops and closed off to motor vehicles.

3. a large area with shade trees used as a public walk or promenade.

4. a strip of land separating two roadways.

5. pall-mall.

[1635–45; by ellipsis from pall-mall]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	mall - a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk promenade esplanade - a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore paseo, walkway, walk - a path set aside for walking; "after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk"
	2.	mall - 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; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls" shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall, plaza, center food court - an area (as in a shopping mall) where fast food is sold (usually around a common eating area) mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet - a place of business for retailing goods

mall

noun shopping centre, arcade, shopping mall, shopping precinct, strip mall (U.S.) I plan to pay a visit to the mall.

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Translations

مَرْكِز تِجاري

nákupní středisko/areál

butikscenter

Einkaufszentrum

area pedonale passeggiata viale

parduotuvių rajonas pėstiesiems

tirdzniecibas centrs

gågate innendørs butikktorg

молл

nakupovalno središče

kapalı alışveriş merkezi

购物中心

mall

[mɔːl] (US) [mæl] N

1. (= avenue) → alameda f, paseo m

2. (US) (= pedestrian street) → calle f peatonal

3. (also shopping mall) → centro m comercial

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mall

[ˈmɔːl] n (also shopping mall) → centre m commercial

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

mall

n (US: also shopping mall) → Einkaufszentrum nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

mall

[mɔːl] n (Am) (also shopping mall) → centro commerciale

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

mall

(moːl) noun

(also shopping mall) a shopping centre in which traffic is usually not allowed.

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While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour.

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And so, instead of crying because she was the merest nobody, she must, forsooth, sail jauntily down Pall Mall, very trim as to her tackle and ticketed with the insufferable air of an engaged woman.

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James's Park, where I saw abundance of fine ladies in the Park, walking in the Mall, and among the rest there was a little miss, a young lady of about twelve or thirteen years old, and she had a sister, as I suppose it was, with her, that might be about nine years old.

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The "Typhoon" appeared in the early numbers of the Pall Mall Magazine, then under the direction of the late Mr.

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>From the Strand he crossed Trafalgar Square into Pall Mall, and up the Haymarket into Piccadilly.

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From the day a letter had come from Peter Mall, an ex-comrade in Wade's old regiment, saying the quarter-section next his own could be bought by paying annually a dollar and twenty-five cents an acre for seven years, their hopes had risen into determination that had become unshakable.

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Mycroft lodges in Pall Mall, and he walks round the corner into Whitehall every morning and back every evening.

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Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions.

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The Pall Mall, on the other hand, declares that Letheringham will assuredly be sent for to-morrow."

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It is such as he, as little conscious of himself as the bee in a hive, who are the lucky in life, for they have the best chance of happiness: their activities are shared by all, and their pleasures are only pleasures because they are enjoyed in common; you will see them on Whit-Monday dancing on Hampstead Heath, shouting at a football match, or from club windows in Pall Mall cheering a royal procession.

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When Mr Balfour replied to the allegations that the Roman Empire sank under the weight of its military obligations, he said that this was 'wholly unhistorical.' He might well have added that the Roman power was at its zenith when every citizen acknowledged his liability to fight for the State, but that it began to decline as soon as this obligation was no longer recognized."--Pall Mall Gazette, 15th May 1906.

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Along Pall Mall the taxi in which she was seated gained considerably, but in the Park and along the Bird Cage Walk both the other taxies, risking the police regulations, drew almost alongside.

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