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mall
/mɔːl/
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What does mall mean?
noun
- A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
- An enclosed shopping centre.
- A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
More meanings (7)
noun
- A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
- (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
- (obsolete) The game of polo.
- (obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.
verb
- to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
- to build up with the development of shopping malls
- (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.
When all the mall has been collected in the mall tank, it is next pumped up into the straining room.
More book examples (3)
The local house agent could tell me nothing about Charlington Hall, and referred me to a well-known firm in Pall Mall.
I was intoxicated with wine and pleasure, when I, on this occasion, entered a haunt of ruin and enterprising avarice in Pall Mall.
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.