mall

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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. 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.
   • Cancel plans just in case you'd call / And say, "Meet me behind the mall"
3. 3

   An alley where the game of pall mall was played.

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   1. 4

      A public walk

      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.
   2. 5

      A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.

      • I also fell slightly; but his fall proving a severe one, he arose in wrath, and struck me with the mall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously […]
   3. 6

      The game of polo.

   4. 7

      An old game played with malls or mallets and balls

      An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.

      • But playing with the Boy ar Mall, (I rue the Time, and ever shall) I struck the Ball, I know not how
   5. 8

      to beat with a mall, or mallet

      to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise

   6. 9

      to build up with the development of shopping malls

   7. 10

      to shop at the mall

The neighborhood