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mall

/mɔːl/

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What does mall mean?

noun

  1. A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
  2. An enclosed shopping centre.
  3. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
More meanings (7)

noun

  1. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
  2. (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
  3. (obsolete) The game of polo.
  4. (obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.

verb

  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. (informal) to shop at the mall

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IPA pronunciation

/mɔːl/

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At the end of this open mall are those shrines to the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
United States. PresidentsUnited States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. BushProject Gutenberg ebook #925
When all the mall has been collected in the mall tank, it is next pumped up into the straining room.
James InglisSport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo PlanterProject Gutenberg ebook #10818
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The local house agent could tell me nothing about Charlington Hall, and referred me to a well-known firm in Pall Mall.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock HolmesProject Gutenberg ebook #108
I was intoxicated with wine and pleasure, when I, on this occasion, entered a haunt of ruin and enterprising avarice in Pall Mall.
Andrew SteinmetzThe Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2)Project Gutenberg ebook #466
We must show mall wrestling with the ever-recurrent difficulties of his hard life, and gradually developing in accordance with a law which appears to be immutable.
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de NadaillacManners and Monuments of Prehistoric PeoplesTranslated by N. D'AnversProject Gutenberg ebook #3309