mall
75
1.0
- noun
- /mɔl/
:
paseo
- Many characteristics of the mall and its location made it an ideal site for college expansion.
- the National mall
- museum on the mall
- monuments on the mall
I think it will anchor the end of what is now Jane Stanford Mall in a much different way than in.
- I think it will anchor the end of what is now Jane Stanford Mall in a much different way than in.
- It attracts people to destinations, whether they're plazas or malls.
- The specific moment up from that trip is our walk around the the Washington Mall.
Examples
-
You have to give the mall credit; as public space goes, it is fairly democratic.
Academic text (2004) -
There is a fire on the Mall in Washington.
-
Everybody in the mall was running.
-
The National Museum of Natural History is located on the Mall in Washington.
Academic text (1993) -
I could see the main square of the mall, the people milling about.
Fiction book (1994) -
Look where you will in the mall, and almost every image you see is that of an adolescent.
Academic text (2004) -
At the other end of the Mall sits the much better regarded, then as now, Lincoln Memorial.
Academic text (1996) -
I'd lie to my parents and tell them I was studying when... ...really, I'd sneak to the mall to hang out with my friends.
-
So this happens to be a dead mall in Saint Louis that's been re inhabited as art space.
-
On weekends, families often enjoy walking together in the mall to shop and socialize.
Synonyms
123
1.0
A path people use near a building or in a garden
51
2.0
A path made for people to go on foot
44
5.8
A path by the sea or river where people walk for pleasure
A wide public path lined with trees for walking
A path for people to walk on beside a road
Compounds
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word mall comes from the old game pall-mall, literally 'ball' and 'mallet', which people played along a long straight walk. So a mall originally meant a wide public walking area.