Mall

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large, often enclosed shopping complex containing various stores, businesses, and restaurants usually accessible by common passageways.
  • n. A street lined with shops and closed to vehicles.
  • n. A shady public walk or promenade.
  • n. Chiefly Upstate New York See median strip. See Regional Note at neutral ground.
  • n. Variant of maul.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
  • n. A heavy blow.
  • n. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall
  • n. A place where the game of mall was played.
  • n. A public walk; a level shaded walk.
  • n. A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
  • n. An enclosed shopping centre.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
  • n. A heavy blow.
  • n. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
  • n. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
  • v. To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
  • n. A court of justice.
  • n. A place where justice is administered.
  • n. A place where public meetings are held.
  • n. A public access area containing a promenade for pedestrians.
  • n. The paved or grassy strip between two roadways.
  • n. A shopping area with multiple shops and a concourse for predominantly or exclusively pedestrian use; in cities the concourse is usually a city street which may be temporarily or permamently closed to motor vehicles; in suburban areas, a mall is often located on a convenient highway, may be large, contained in one building or in multiple buildings connected by (usually covered) walkways. Also called shopping mall
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A heavy hammer or club of any sort; especially, a heavy wooden hammer used by carpenters. Compare mallet and beetle, 1.
  • n. A war-hammer or martel-de-fer.
  • n. The head or striking part of a war-hammer or martel-de-fer.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The mallet with which this game was played; also, the alley in which it was played.
  • n. [⟨ mall, verb] A blow.
  • To beat, especially with a mall or mallet; bruise.
  • n. A public walk; a level shaded walk.
  • n. A court: same as mallum, mallus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
  • n. mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    top-mall   
    Variant
    Form
    malled    malling    shopping mall    mall rat   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    maul    bruise   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ball    Fall    Gaul    Hall    Montreal    Nepal    Paul    Raul    Saul    Senegal   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    motel    plaza    theaters    bookstore    supermarket    restaurant    cafe    airport    stadium    warehouse