mall
/mɔːl//mɔːl/
mall noun: a pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
Noun
mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)
- 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.1950 August 15, Philip Hampson, “Field's Plans 15 to 20 Million Shopping Center for Skokie”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, page 1
- 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.2002, Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn′t, page 179
- 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.2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don′t Need a Million to Retire Well, unnumbered page
- Cancel plans just in case you'd call / And say, "Meet me behind the mall"2020, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, “August”, in Folklore
- An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
- 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.1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism
- 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 […]1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- The game of polo.
- 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 how1675, Charles Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque
- But playing with the Boy ar Mall,
Verb
mall (third-person singular simple present malls, present participle malling, simple past and past participle malled)
mall meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mall in Hindi
- enclosed shopping centre
- शॉपिंग सेंटर śŏpiṅg sẽṭar
mall in Tamil
- கொத்தங்காடி, தொகையங்காடி, பேரங்காடி, பல்கடை அங்காடி, கடைத்தொகுப்பு, கடைவளாகம்
mall in Marathi
- enclosed shopping centre
- मॉल mŏl
mall in Urdu
- mall
- خریداری مرکز xarīdārī markaz
More languagesFewer languages
- mall in Bengali
- মুদ্গর, দীর্ঘ কাষ্ঠমুদ্গর
- mall in Telugu
- మాల్
- mall in Malayalam
- വാണിഭകേന്ദ്രം, വിപണിസ്ഥലം, വ്യാപാരസമുച്ചയം, വാണിജ്യസമുച്ചയം
- mall in Kannada
- ಅಂಗಡಿಸಾಲು, ನೆರಳು ಹಾದಿ, ನೆರಳಿನ ಮಾರ್ಗ, ವಿಹಾರ ಮಾರ್ಗ
- mall in Gujarati
- મોલ, મૉલ
- mall in Odia
- ମଲ୍, ମଲ
- mall in Arabic
- مَرْكَز تَسَوِّق markaz tasawwiq, مَرْكَز تِجَارِيّ markaz tijāriyy, مول mōl
- mall in Thai
- ถนนคนเดิน, ศูนย์การค้า sǔun-gaan-káa, ห้างสรรพสินค้า hâang-sàp-pá-sǐn-káa, ห้าง hâang
- mall in Vietnamese
- phố đi bộ, trung tâm thương mại, trung tâm mua sắm, thương xá
Examples of mall in a sentence
- He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview.
- The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.
- A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.
Forms of mall
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | malls |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | malls |
| present participle | malling |
| past participle | malled |
| past | malled |
Origin of mall
Probably from The Mall, a major street in London, England, which was originally a pall mall alley.
Words formed from mall
- auto mall
- cybermall
- dead mall
- ghost mall
- mall cop
- mallcore
- mall emo
- mallgoer
- mall-goer
- mallgoth
- mallification
- mall ninja
- mall rat
- mall shooter
- mall shooting
- mallsoft
- mallspeak
- mallternative
- mall traffic
- mall walker
- mall walking
- megamall
- minimall
- mini-mall
- pall-mall
- shopping mall
- strip mall
- supermall
- unmalled
Phrases with mall
Words that rhyme with mall
Questions about mall
- What does mall mean?
- Mall means a pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
- What is mall in Hindi?
- Mall in Hindi is शॉपिंग सेंटर (śŏpiṅg sẽṭar). See Mall meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mall?
- Mall can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce mall?
- Mall is pronounced /mɔːl/.
- What is the plural of mall?
- The plural of mall is malls.
Words near mall in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mall (page history and authors); mall (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); خریداری مرکز (Urdu) (page history and authors); mall (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mall (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mall (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); mall (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mall (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mall (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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