mallmall /mɔːl, mæl $ mɒːl/ ●●● S3 W3 noun [countable] especially American English 
Let’s meet at the mall and go see a movie. a huge new shopping mall → strip mall
WORD ORIGINmall
Origin:
1700-1800 mall ‘long path used for playing a game called "pall-mall"’ (17-19 centuries)EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a huge new shopping mall
- As we stroll through the mall we can see signs of the opposite problem.
- Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall.
- I don't work shopping malls.
- It has sprouted shopping malls, discos and nightclubs, beauty salons, gymnasia, news kiosks, coffee shops.
- She hears immigrant lovers cry in crowded shopping malls.
- Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
- They look upward to the canopy three stories above that arches over the length of the four-block mall.
- They talked strategy and philosophy, waiting for the gun to arrive in the mall.
THESAURUS
especially British English, store especially American English a building or place where things are sold: · She's gone to the shops to get some milk.· a clothes shop· Our local store has sold out of sugar for making jam.
a small shop that sells fashionable clothes or other objects: · a little boutique which specializes in bath products.
British English a very large shop, especially one that is built outside the centre of a city: · Out-of-town superstores have taken business away from shops in the city centre.
a very large shop that is divided into several big parts, each of which sells one type of thing, such as clothes, furniture, or kitchen equipment: · He went around all the big department stores in Oxford Street.
(also grocery store American English) a very large shop that sells food, drinks, and things that people need regularly in their homes: · Supermarkets have cut down the number of plastic bags they distribute by 50%.
a shop where you can get your hair washed, cut curled etc
British English, nursery especially American English a place that sells a wide range of plants, seeds, and things for your garden: · Your local garden centre can advise you on which plants to grow.
formal a shop that sells things for less than the usual price, especially things from a particular company or things of a particular type: · The book is available from most retail outlets.
an area, usually outdoors, where people buy and sell many different types of things: · I usually buy our vegetables at the market – they're much cheaper there.
especially American English a large area where there are a lot of shops, especially a large building: · A new restaurant has opened at the mall.· We used to hang around together at the mall.
American English a row of shops built together, with a large area for parking cars in front of it: · Strip malls can seem rather impersonal.
Longman Language Activatora lot of shops together in one place British /shopping center American an area in a town where there are a lot of shops that have all been built together in the same place: · The boy was found dead two days after he disappeared from a shopping centre.· They had a big Santa exhibition on at the shopping center.
especially American a very large building with lots of shops inside it, and often also cinemas, restaurants etc: · We'll probably go to the mall and check out the beds there.· It's difficult to get a parking space at Shepherd's Mall.
American a row of shops in one long building that has space to park cars around it: · Strip malls were springing up all over town, and the local residents were up in arms.
British an area of a town where there are a lot of shops, especially one where vehicles are not allowed: · They've got a lovely new Burton's open in the precinct now.shopping precinct: · They wandered around the shopping precinct for an hour while Suzie was having her hair cut.pedestrian precinct: · I think they should make the whole area a pedestrian precinct.
an area, usually outdoors, where people buy and sell many different types of things: · I bet you could have got that cheaper at the market.· You occasionally see eel in the fish market, but it's quite rare these days.farmer's market (=place where farmers can sell what they grow and other food): flea market (=place where old and used things are sold)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a huge new shopping mallCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a large area where there are a lot of shops, usually a covered area where cars are not allowed SYN shopping centre: a huge new shopping mall· There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls, and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
· The Pallasades, the Pavilions are bright new malls, with the top fashion chain stores in comfortable and convenient surroundings.· We can and will build new roads, new shopping malls and multiplexes.· The first is to build the new shopping mall or supermarket immediately adjacent to the town centre.
· It will become a pedestrian mall during the games, wooing visitors with the now-ubiquitous coffee franchises and sushi bars.· Elvis had left the pawnshop to place his karaoke machine carefully on a stool along the crowded pedestrian mall.· The National Park Service has developed a $ 40 million plan to permanently convert the strip into a pedestrian mall.
NOUN· Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall.· Or is the genuine Dublin culture to be found in the new sprawling suburbs with its run-down libraries and shopping malls?· It has sprouted shopping malls, discos and nightclubs, beauty salons, gymnasia, news kiosks, coffee shops.· I don't work shopping malls.· Even now, he had never returned to the shopping mall.· You have shopping malls in Richmond and Clapham.· Step ashore to a world of pavement cafes, boutiques and the continental charm of Port Solent's fashionable shopping mall.· There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls, and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
· Main Street has been replaced by the strip mall and the shopping mall, concentrating consumer goods in an auto-friendly space.· Chef Henry's Tip-Top Bistro is in a small strip mall in a space that was the original home of Bravissimo.· The restaurant was situated in a strip mall about four blocks from the office.· The typical retail pushcart is set up in the open areas of a shopping mall or strip mall.· The Moores have watched the trends for 17 years from their shop in the back of a strip mall in Silver Spring.· Tract housing, strip malls and public schools surrounded Southwestern.· She owned the ice cream parlor, plus a shared interest in a strip mall.
VERB· The first is to build the new shopping mall or supermarket immediately adjacent to the town centre.· Target has operated from that building since the mall opened in the late 1970s.
· Or like those journalists who only know the shopping malls of power.· Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.· In Chipping Norton it's the smartest superstore in town, part of a brand-new shopping mall.· The typical retail pushcart is set up in the open areas of a shopping mall or strip mall.· Fairbank became something of a shopping mall.· People hurt when the ceiling of a shopping mall fell in.· Hannah was a little less apt to become frantic in busy places, such as shopping malls and grocery stores.· They went to grocery stores, shopping malls and restaurants together.
Let’s meet at the mall and go see a movie. a huge new shopping mall → strip mall