shopping mall
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈʃɑːpɪŋ mɔːl/
- US
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centro comercial
- We spent the afternoon exploring the shops in the expansive shopping mall downtown.
- shopping malls and shopping centers
- stores and shopping malls
- shopping mall owner
And the Grove is like this upscale shopping mall in like Beverly Grove.
- And the Grove is like this upscale shopping mall in like Beverly Grove.
- And at that time people thought of shopping malls as these non disruptible things.
- I'm almost five years into standing around in shopping malls, talking to strangers and selling my stuff like this.
- Cell phone companies will sell to a shopping centre, a shopping mall in America.
- So examples for the Apple Store was locate a store in a shopping mall.
- To being now a town which attracts industry, has its first shopping mall.
- People don't realize that that walking to the store, walking from your car to the store and walking around a shopping mall, all of that counts too.
- Larger shopping malls are better than smaller ones because the larger scale allows for diversified activities and goods.
- Those are all shopping malls and condominiums, but still.
- because that would mean that shopping malls are the Kingdom of heaven.
- Instead, they loan money to a shopping mall developer with her money.
- On in cafes and shopping malls and buses.
- We colonize through the lifestyle, through the consumption, through shopping malls and things like that.
Examples
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I was taking the dog out for a walk near the shopping mall and ran into her.
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We're gonna build a shopping mall there.
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But a guy came up to me in the shopping mall once.
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Anyway, at the at the center of this shopping mall, I located the map.
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Helen got off the bus at a shopping mall on the way back from school.
Fiction book (1994) -
I'm in a shopping mall.
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And all the shopping malls are closed.
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You can go to shopping malls in any of the States and see exactly the same shops.
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Twenty miles south, Missoula had the only shopping mall within two hundred miles.
Fiction book (1994) -
In BG, we see a large, busy shopping mall with cars and shoppers.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
A large indoor building with many shops and places to eat
81
3.5
A group of shops and restaurants with parking and outdoor space
38
1.6
A large building with many shops and places to eat
1
5.2
A large covered space with shops and restaurants and often a glass roof
How Big
- US
62
1.0
- US
38
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'shopping' (buying goods) + 'mall' (a complex with many shops), so a learner who knows both words can predict it denotes a place or platform for shopping across multiple stores. This compositional pattern is common cross‑linguistically and follows regular noun+noun compound logic, making it readily understandable at B1.
Etymology
Shopping mall comes from the old word mall, which meant a public place to walk and meet people. When many shops were built along those walks the name came to mean a single place with many stores together, so shopping mall now means a large centre where people go to buy things.