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mall

mall

545 1.0
A large indoor building with many shops and places to eat
  • noun
  • /mɔl/
  • US
: centro comercial
  • We could go to the mall and wander around.
  • shopping mall
  • go to the mall
  • stores in the mall

OK, guys, we just got back from the mall exhausted.

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Examples

  • I love spending my weekends at the mall because of all the great shops.

  • Just tell the driver you want off at the mall; he'll tell you where the stop is.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • I have not been to the mall in how many months?

  • Will you guys meet me at the mall later?

  • The mall must be closed.

  • "Young people are its customers, and the mall is not interested in driving away its customers."

    Academic text (1997)
  • Let's go to the mall today.

  • It's usually about that day that we drove out to the mall for your birthday.

  • We're going to the mall.

  • That's what I call a successful trip to the mall.

Synonyms

plaza
vsmall
  • US
81 3.5

A group of shops and restaurants with parking and outdoor space

is an indoor shopping complex rather than a landscaped open area
shopping mall
vsmall
  • US
62 1.0

A large building or outdoor area with many shops and restaurants

is specifically an indoor complex rather than outdoor or mixed
shopping center
vsmall
  • US
38 1.6

A large building with many shops and places to eat

is usually a single enclosed building focused on indoor retail
strip mall
vsmall
  • US
20 3.0

A row of stores and restaurants with a parking lot in front along a busy road

is a large enclosed indoor complex, not a roadside linear row
galleria
vsmall
1 5.2

A large covered space with shops and restaurants and often a glass roof

is the general indoor shopping complex without special glass architecture

Compounds

62 1.0

A large building or outdoor area with many shops and restaurants

20 3.0

A row of stores and restaurants with a parking lot in front along a busy road

shopping mall
  • Texting
1 3.0

A website where many shops sell things in one place

mall ninja
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who acts like a trained fighter to show off in stores or online

8.1

A street in central London with old private clubs and elegant buildings

pall-mall
  • Archaic
9.9

An old lawn game where people hit a wooden ball with a mallet along an alley

How Big

shopping center
  • US
38 1.6
mall
  • US
545 1.0
store
∞ 1.0
stall
38 1.0

Surface Forms

mall singular
malls plural

Etymology

Later, the word mall was used for large shopping centers because those wide walking places filled with shops. That's why a mall now means a big indoor place with many stores and places to eat.