mall
/mɔːl/ · mal
noun
- A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. The city's main street is a popular mall during the holiday season.
- An enclosed shopping centre. The mall has over 200 stores and a large food court.
- An alley where the game of pall mall was played. The historic mall in the old town is still used for recreational purposes.
verb
- To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise. The worker mall the metal to shape it.
- To build up with the development of shopping malls. The city mall over the past few decades with the construction of several large malls.
- To shop at the mall. I mall with my friends every weekend.
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Did you know? The term 'mall' is often associated with the popular American shopping mall, but it originated from the Old French word 'maille', meaning 'a ball' or 'a mallet'.