Mall
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /mæl/ or (especially in senses 6 and 7) IPA: /mÉ”Ël/
- Rhymes: -æl, Rhymes: -É”Ël
- US (varieties without the cot-caught merger) IPA: /mÉ”Ël/
- Rhymes: -É”Ël
- Homophones: maul with -awl pronunciation
- US (varieties with the cot-caught merger) IPA: /mÉ‘Ël/
- Rhymes: -É‘Ël
Origin
From Old French mail
Full definition of mall
Noun
mall
(plural malls)- A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
- A heavy blow.
- An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall.
- A place where the game of mall was played.
- A public walk; a level shaded walk.
- SoutheyPart 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.
- (US, Australia) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.pedestrian mall
- 2002, Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn′t, %22malls%22+pedestrian+-intitle:%22mall|malls%22+-inauthor:%22mall%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0HynT-2mC6mHmQWi3rXhBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22mall%22|%22malls%22%20pedestrian%20-intitle%3A%22mall|malls%22%20-inauthor%3A%22mall%22&f=false page 179,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.
- An enclosed shopping centre.
- 2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don′t Need a Million to Retire Well, %22malls%22+-intitle:%22mall|malls%22+-inauthor:%22mall%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GXWnT4vIO-yUmQWpn9XhBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22mall%22|%22malls%22%20-intitle%3A%22mall|malls%22%20-inauthor%3A%22mall%22&f=false unnumbered page,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.
- 2010, Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies, %22malls%22+-intitle:%22mall|malls%22+-inauthor:%22mall%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GXWnT4vIO-yUmQWpn9XhBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22mall%22|%22malls%22%20-intitle%3A%22mall|malls%22%20-inauthor%3A%22mall%22&f=false unnumbered page,In addition to Web site kits, ISPs, and businesses that specialize in Web hosting, online shopping malls provide another form of Web hosting.