mall

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mall

a large retail complex; area used as a public walk
Not to be confused with:maul – a heavy hammer; to use roughly; to injuremoll – a female criminal

mall

M0062300 (môl)n.1. A large, often enclosed shopping complex containing various stores, businesses, and restaurants usually accessible by common passageways.2. A street lined with shops and closed to vehicles.3. A shady public walk or promenade.4. Chiefly Upstate New York See median.
[After The Mall in London, England, originally a pall-mall alley.]

mall

(mæl; mɔːl) n1. (Human Geography) a shaded avenue, esp one that is open to the public2. (Commerce) US and Canadian and Austral and NZ short for shopping mall[C17: after The Mall, in St James's Park, London. See pall-mall]

mall

(mɔl; Brit. also mæl for 4 )

n. 1. a large retail complex containing stores and restaurants in adjacent buildings or in a single large building. 2. an urban street lined with shops and closed off to motor vehicles. 3. a large area with shade trees used as a public walk or promenade. 4. a strip of land separating two roadways. 5. pall-mall. [1635–45; by ellipsis from pall-mall]
Thesaurus
Noun1.mall - a public area set aside as a pedestrian walkmall - a public area set aside as a pedestrian walkpromenadeesplanade - a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashorepaseo, walkway, walk - a path set aside for walking; "after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk"
2.mall - mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisersmall - 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; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls"shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall, plaza, centerfood court - an area (as in a shopping mall) where fast food is sold (usually around a common eating area)mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet - a place of business for retailing goods

mall

noun shopping centre, arcade, shopping mall, shopping precinct, strip mall (U.S.) I plan to pay a visit to the mall.
Translations
购物中心

mall

(moːl) noun (also shopping mall) a shopping centre in which traffic is usually not allowed. 購物中心 购物中心

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