Mall

Word MALL
Character 4
Hyphenation mall
Pronunciations /mɔːl/

Definitions and meanings of "Mall"

What do we mean by mall?

A large, often enclosed shopping complex containing various stores, businesses, and restaurants usually accessible by common passageways. noun

A street lined with shops and closed to vehicles. noun

A shady public walk or promenade. noun

A public walk; a level shaded walk. noun

A heavy hammer or club of any sort; especially, a heavy wooden hammer used by carpenters. Compare mallet and beetle, 1. noun

A war-hammer or martel-de-fer. noun

The head or striking part of a war-hammer or martel-de-fer. noun

The blunt or square projection of such a hammer, as distinguished from the beak on the opposite side of the handle: this blunt end was often divided into four, six, or more blunt points or protuberances. noun

An old game played with a wooden ball in a kind of smooth alley boarded in at each side, in which the ball was struck with a mallet in order to send it through an iron arch called the pass, placed at the end of the alley. noun

The mallet with which this game was played; also, the alley in which it was played. noun

⟨ mall, verb A blow. noun

A court: same as mallum, mallus. noun

To beat, especially with a mall or mallet; bruise.

A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. noun

A heavy blow. noun

An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. noun

A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk. noun

To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul. transitive verb

A court of justice. noun

A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

An enclosed shopping centre.

An alley where the game of pall mall was played.

A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.

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

The game of polo.

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

Synonyms and Antonyms for Mall

The word "mall" in example sentences

Some of those are rather flattered by the term "mall" – in the same way that shops in India claiming to be "fancy goods stores" sell neither Fabergé eggs nor Brabantia dustbins, but canisters of talcum powder. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This beautiful urban mall—in the old sense of the word "mall"—feels very European. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On the floor of the mall is a casual replica of Big Ben. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There's something very European about this beautiful urban mall, in the old sense of the word 'mall.' ❋ Unknown (2011)

The office in the mall is a good place to ask questions, since the main office (where you take your test) is always packed with people. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Right smackdab in the middle of the mall is the mail forwarding business. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'll close with a commercial: here in Framingham, I live within shouting distance of about a hundred shopping malls, and if the traffic I have to crawl through when I'm not even going to the mall is any indication, there's a lot of holiday-gift aggravation out there for the having. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

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