mall
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /mæl/, /mɔːl/
- (New Zealand, US (varieties without the cot-caught merger), New England, Australia) IPA: /mɔːl/
- (US (varieties with the cot-caught merger), Canada) IPA: /mɑl/
mall
- (chiefly, North America, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. [from 20th c.]
- 2002, Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn′t, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-0h134NR1s0C&pg=PA179&dq=%22mall%22|%22malls%22+pedestrian+-intitle:%22mall|malls%22+-inauthor:%22mall%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0HynT-2mC6mHmQWi3rXhBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22mall%22|%22malls%22%20pedestrian%20-intitle%3A%22mall|malls%22%20-inauthor%3A%22mall%22&f=false page 179],
- America′s first pedestrianized shopping mall opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian malls, it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.
- 2002, Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn′t, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-0h134NR1s0C&pg=PA179&dq=%22mall%22|%22malls%22+pedestrian+-intitle:%22mall|malls%22+-inauthor:%22mall%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0HynT-2mC6mHmQWi3rXhBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22mall%22|%22malls%22%20pedestrian%20-intitle%3A%22mall|malls%22%20-inauthor%3A%22mall%22&f=false page 179],
- An enclosed shopping centre. [from 20th c.]
- 2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don′t Need a Million to Retire Well, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=q1NZ8W0mRXIC&pg=PT57&dq=%22mall%22|%22malls%22+-intitle:%22mall|malls%22+-inauthor:%22mall%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GXWnT4vIO-yUmQWpn9XhBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22mall%22|%22malls%22%20-intitle%3A%22mall|malls%22%20-inauthor%3A%22mall%22&f=false unnumbered page],
- Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America′s enclosed shopping malls.
- 2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don′t Need a Million to Retire Well, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=q1NZ8W0mRXIC&pg=PT57&dq=%22mall%22|%22malls%22+-intitle:%22mall|malls%22+-inauthor:%22mall%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GXWnT4vIO-yUmQWpn9XhBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22mall%22|%22malls%22%20-intitle%3A%22mall|malls%22%20-inauthor%3A%22mall%22&f=false unnumbered page],
- (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th-19th c.]
- A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade. [from 18th c.]
- 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.
- A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall. [from 17th c.]
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- I also fell slightly; but his fall proving a severe one, he arose in wrath, and struck me with the mall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously […]
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- (obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
- (obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall. [17th-19th c.]
- French: mail
- French: mail
- French: centre commercial, mail (Quebec)
- German: Einkaufszentrum
- Portuguese: centro comercial, shopping
- Russian: торго́вый центр
- Spanish: centro comercial
- French: mail
mall (malls, present participle malling; past and past participle malled)
- to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
- to build up with the development of shopping malls
- (informal) to shop at the mall
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