mall

[ mawl; British also mal ]
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noun
  1. Also called shopping mall . a large retail complex containing a variety of stores and often restaurants and other business establishments housed in a series of connected or adjacent buildings or in a single large building.: Compare shopping center.

  2. a large area, usually lined with shade trees and shrubbery, used as a public walk or promenade.

  1. Chiefly Upstate New York. a strip of land, usually planted or paved, separating lanes of opposite traffic on highways, boulevards, etc.

  2. the game of pall-mall.

  3. the mallet used in the game of pall-mall.

  4. the place or alley where pall-mall was played.

Origin of mall

1
1635–45; the Mall, a fashionable tree-lined promenade in 18th-century London, where originally the game pall-mall was played; see mell2

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British Dictionary definitions for mall

mall

/ (mæl, mɔːl) /


noun
  1. a shaded avenue, esp one that is open to the public

  2. US, Canadian, Australian and NZ short for shopping mall

Origin of mall

1
C17: after The Mall, in St James's Park, London. See pall-mall

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