mall

[Mall]

A mall is a large shopping center. If you want to spend your day buying clothes and eating in a food court, the mall is the place for you.

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A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

Noun
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 mov

Noun
a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk


n.
A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

n.
A heavy blow.

n.
An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.

n.
A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.

v. t.
To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

n.
Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.

n.
A court of justice.

n.
A place where justice is administered.

n.
A place where public meetings are held.


Mall

Mall , n. [Written also maul.] [OE. malle, F. mail, L. malleus. Cf. Malleus.] 1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. Addison. 2. A heavy blow. [Obs.] Spenser. 3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. Cotton. 4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.

Mall

Mall , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Malling.] [Cf. OF. mailler. See Mall beetle, and cf. Malleate.] To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

Mall

Mall , n. [LL. mallum a public assembly; cf. OHG. mahal assembly, transaction; akin to AS. m'91el, meel, assembly, mlan to speak, Goth. mapl market place.] Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly. Hence: (a) A court of justice. (b) A place where justice is administered. (c) A place where public meetings are held.
Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased.

A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly

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Usage Examples

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he's kind of my bodyguard.

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

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Other Usage Examples

Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.

I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

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