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.
a large area, usually lined with shade trees and shrubbery, used as a public walk or promenade.
Chiefly Upstate New York. a strip of land, usually planted or paved, separating lanes of opposite traffic on highways, boulevards, etc.
the game of pall-mall.
the mallet used in the game of pall-mall.
the place or alley where pall-mall was played.
Origin of mall
1635–45; the Mall, a fashionable tree-lined promenade in 18th-century London, where originally the game pall-mall was played; see mell2
A late-August Morning Consult survey found that only 36% of consumers were willing to visit a shopping mall in the next 2 – 3 months.
A Corona Xmas: Why physical stores will power online shopping this holiday season|Greg Sterling|September 4, 2020|Search Engine Land
In February, Macy’s said it would close its underperforming stores in the weakest US malls and explore ways to expand beyond malls.
After decades of anchoring malls, Macy’s wants out|Marc Bain|September 2, 2020|Quartz
Simon bought fast-fashion purveyor Forever 21 out of bankruptcy earlier this year along with Authentic Brands and another large mall owner, Brookfield Property Partners.
America’s Largest Shopping Mall Owner Gets a New Tenant: Itself|Daniel Malloy|August 20, 2020|Ozy
Suddenly Hangzhou’s 10 million residents were all required to show a green code to take the subway, shop for groceries, or enter a mall.
Inside China’s unexpected quest to protect data privacy|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Almost all the public spaces, starting with the malls and pharmacies, still require masks.
How Mongolia has kept the coronavirus at bay|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Your general reaction runs along the lines of: “When will these geezers give it up and go for a mall walk or something?”
The World’s Toughest Political Quiz|Jeff Greenfield|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They had to go to the bazaar -- as the mall was then called -- and buy them.
Keep Christmas Commercialized!|P. J. O’Rourke|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Someone dressed as an Emirati woman killed an American teacher in a mall bathroom.
Middle East Murder Mystery: Who Killed an American Teacher in Abu Dhabi?|Chris Allbritton|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Contrary to what you may assume about me, I actually enjoy the occasional trip to the mall.
It’s Always Black Friday for Clerks|Michael Tomasky|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“You can read my eyes for the truth,” he told me at one point at the mall, before he switched to speaking Arabic.
Local Truces Are Syria’s Sad Little Pieces of Peace|Joshua Hersh|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Here they met to criticise each other and talk scandal, in imitation of the fine folks to be seen on the Mall at St. James's.
The Manchester Rebels of the Fatal '45|William Harrison Ainsworth
I saw him yesterday in the Mall with his turban; which really becomes him very well.
Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume II (of 2)|John Hill Burton
All without was still, not a leaf stirred on the trees in the Mall; no human figure was to be seen.
Godolphin, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The mall, or boulevard of our Common, you know, has various branches leading from it in different directions.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table|Oliver Wendell Holmes
But a week ago he had spoken a kindly word in the Mall to one who had rarely a kind word from an honest man.
The Path of the King|John Buchan
British Dictionary definitions for mall
mall
/ (mæl, mɔːl) /
noun
a shaded avenue, esp one that is open to the public
US, Canadian, Australian and NZ short for shopping mall
Word Origin for mall
C17: after The Mall, in St James's Park, London. See pall-mall