Mall

Definition: Mall

Mall

Noun

1. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.

2. Mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; a modern version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mall" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Computing

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mining

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Synonyms: Mall

Abode

Square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market place, place, plaza.

Impulse

Hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; (weapon); ax; (sharp).

Mart

Mall, suburban mall, commons, pedestrian mall; shopping street.

Crosswords: Mall

Albanian (commodity, goods, longing, nostalgia, yearning), Irish (late, slow, slow, late), Scottish (placid, slow), Swedish (pattern, template), Welsh (blight).

He likes you, that's why he treats you like a reject from the outlet Mall. (Get a Clue; writing credit: Alana Burgi)

I have a map of every mall from here to Tijuana (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn)

Broadway has turned into the Mall of America (Reverend Billy; writing credit: Ângela Câmara; Joe Pimentel)

Well I didn't take our usual shortcut through the mall. (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer)

Oh! There's an Arden B. in the new mall! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

We can walk through tha mall while I hold ya hips (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K)

And go straight to the mall, and tear down the (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers)

But you're steady heading to the mall ("Bills, Bills, Bills"; performing artist: Destiny's Child)

Caught me in the mall wit all, my homies wit me (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

And the mall kids, that's how to change low (Like I Love You; performing artist: Justin Timberlake)

Ending Looking Down the Mall Circular Panorama of the Base of the Electric Tower (1901)

Mall Masters (2000)

Strip Mall (2000)

You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Mall of America Party (1997)

Summer Stories: The Mall (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• PC Mall, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Mall (reference)

• Mall Walking Madness: Everything You Need to Know to Lose Weight and Have Fun at the Same Time (reference)

• Mummies at the Mall (Scooby-Doo Readers, 11) (reference)

• Scooby-Doo! and the Mystery Mall (Scooby-Doo 3-D Storybook , No 2) (reference)

• Take Us to Your Mall : A FoxTrot Collection (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Scenes from a Mall (reference)

• You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Mall Party (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• MALL to MARS (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Mall Tycoon (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Various shots of people walking around in a shopping mall. Credit: Michael Anderson (photographer).

Anita DeWulf, Clinton County SWCD Commissioner; Warren Cook, Clinton Co. SWCD Commissioner; Connie Ramirez, NRCS District Conservationist; Audrey DeScheppper, technician; Jerry Mall; and Helen Atkinson, Muscatine County SWCD Secretary, discuss local conse. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Exhibit at Gateway Mall. Credit: D. Huntington.

National Mall. Credit: NPS.

Center Glatt, shopping mall, hotel, and high-rise offices, Glatt, near Zurich, Switzerland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Beacon St. mall, Boston. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Future Washington, [United States] Capitol from the Mall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Prince George Plaza, Hyattsville, Maryland. Hecht's from mall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cortez Plaza Shopping Center, Bradenton, Florida. Mall I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mall. Lamps proposed for Capitol Plaza. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

A R350 million ($50 million) Harbor Mall being developed by Rocpoint is now close to realization. (references)

Vodaworld, Vodacom's specialist telecommunications and IT shopping mall has proven an extremely successful concept. (references)

Puerto Madero Este is a $300 million project including one million square feet of office space, housing, a shopping mall and 19 movie theatres. (references)

Economic History

Nicaragua

METROCENTRO, shopping mall with Salvadoran capital. (references)

Mexico

Latin America's first mall was built in Guadalajara, and soon followed by 83 shopping centers. (references)

Philippines

SM and Robinsons, the major shopping mall developers in the country, plan to construct at least two malls a year. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

Police arrested 13 persons, including 3 Malaysians, in September following another bombing of the Atrium Mall. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

In early December, two suicide bomber killed 11 persons and injured 188 in a pedestrian mall in West Jerusalem. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

The next day, a bus bomb in Haifa killed 15 and injured 40. Hamas took responsibility for the Haifa and the December Jerusalem pedestrian mall bombings. (references)

Minorities

Indonesia

Police accused 13 persons whom police arrested in September in connection with a mall bombing. (references)

Croatia

In July a skinhead assaulted two Romani boys (aged 4 and 7) in a Zagreb mall; the skinhead was arrested immediately. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

In August in a shopping mall in Haifa, a man threw a Druze baby against a wall after he heard the child's parents speaking Arabic. (references)

Travel

Bahrain

Traffic is congested in some areas of Manama and the Seef Mall. (references)

Argentina

Pickpockets and thieves abound even on busy streets and are especially common in areas frequented by tourists, such as the Florida Avenue mall in Central Buenos Aires, in public conveyances and other visitors frequent, such as hotel lobbies, airports and shopping malls. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "mall": Pall Mall ♦ pedestrian mall ♦ shopping mall ♦ Vancouver Mall. Additional references.

Ending with "mall": Pall-mall.

Albanian

Shëtitore (Avenue, Boulevard, promenade, walk), Rrugë Me Hije, Qendër Tregtare (emporium, factory, mart, Piazza, Plaza, shopping mall), Kompleks Dyqanesh. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميدان مشجر, ‏ممر مشجر, ‏مجمع تجاري, ‏ساحة مشجرة, ‏طريق للمشاة, ‏رصيف للمشاة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

Алея За Пешеходци На Булевард, Алея (Lane). (various references)

Chinese 

购物中心. (various references)

Czech

Nákupní Středisko (shopping centre). (various references)

Danish

mukkert af trae (mallet, maul, mawl), mukkert (mallet, maul, mawl, sledge, sledge hammer), trækølle (mallet, maul, mawl), træhammer (mallet, maul, mawl), skovhammer (mallet, maul, mawl). (various references)

Dutch

slei (mallet, maul, mawl), slegge (mallet, maul, mawl), houten hamer (mallet, maul, mawl). (various references)

French

maillet de bois (mallet, maul, mawl), maillet (mallet), Rue Piétonne, Galerie Marchande, Centre Commercial (mart, shopping mall). (various references)

German

Holzschlegel (mallet, maul, mawl, padded), Holzschlägel (mallet, maul, mawl), Holzhammer (mallet, sledgehammer), Einkaufszentrum (Plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall). (various references)

Greek 

ξύλινο σφυρί (mallet), ματσόλα (beetle), εμπορικό κέντρο (emporiums, forum, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall), Δημόσιοσ Περίπατοσ, Δεντροστοιχία. (various references)

Hebrew 

דרת ׂצים, װטיש ׂץ, קניון (Canyon). (various references)

Hungarian

sétálóutca (pedestrians only), sulyok (bat, battledore, beetle, dolly, mallet, maul, monkey, ram), malljátszótér, malljáték, kalapácsszerű labdaütő, fakalapács (beetle, maul), árnyas sétány. (various references)

Italian

mazzetta (hush-money, mallet, maul, mawl), mazza (bat, bludgeon, club, Mace, mallet, sledge hammer), maglio (hammer, mallet, maul, power hammer, sledge hammer), Centro (base, bull, carton, center, centre, city, city centre, core, downtown, focus, heart, institute, midst, nucleus, station, thick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

モーメント項 (momentum, Morris), シュタイナー学校 (a shop, chauvinism, chemise, chocolate, Chopin, crying, displaywindow, line drive to the shortstop, liquor, Schiller, Schmidt camera, Schottky diode, serial, serial printer, serialize, series, serious, serious drama, shawl, shock, shock absorber, shock theory, shocker, shocking, shockwave, shop in shop, shopping, shopping bag, shopping bag lady, shopping cart, shopping centre, shopping mall, shoran, shordarvision, shore radar television, short, short bound, short circuit, short cut, short hair, short hole, short iron, short order, short pants, short relief, short short, short skirt, short stay, short story, short time, shortcake, short-circuit appeal, shortening, short-range navigation aid, shorts, short-scale, shortstop, shot, shotgun, shotgun bride, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, shoulder, shoulder bag, shoulder pad, shovel, show, show biz, show business, show girl, showboat, showcase, showman, showmanship, showroom, shredder, shrimp, Shroedinger, sleeping bag, snorkel, sound like a steam engine, Steiner school, stem turn in skiing, Sturm und Drang, syllable, Syria, temporary care, trace, weeping). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

モール , ショッピングセンター (shopping centre). (various references)

Korean 

쇼핑 센터 (Plaza). (various references)

Pig Latin

allmay.(various references)

Portuguese

malho (beetle, flail, sled, sledge), macete (beetle, pole-ax), maço de madeira (mallet, maul, mawl), maço (beetle, bunch, pack, packet, sheaf, wad), shopping, rua ladeada de árvores, passeio (causeway, causey, crosswalk, footpath, footway, jaunt, out, outing, pavement, perambulation, promenade, ramble, ride, roam, run, saunter, scramble, sidewalk, stroll, tour, trip, tripping, walk, walkway, wandering), alameda (alley, avenue, grove, lane, walk). (various references)

Romanian

Promenadã (parade, parkway, promenade, walk), Loc De Plimbare (ambulatory, parade), Alee (alley, Avenue, Lane, parkway, promenade, ride, walk). (various references)

Russian 

Место Для Гулянья, бульвар (blvd, Blvd boulevard, boulevard, parkway), Игра В Шары. (various references)

Scottish

amail (hinder, hindrance: ad+ mall, mischief, obstruct, prevent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

aleja (arbored walk), šetalište (esplanade, promenade, walk). (various references)

Spanish

mazo (beetle, club, gavel, mace, mallet, maul, pounder), maza (bludgeon, Mace), mallo (mallet, maul, mawl), Paseo (alley, constitutional, corridor, crossing, drive, excursion, expedition, gut, junket, outing, passage, perambulation, promenade, public walking, ride, row, sail, Sally, saunter, spin, stroll, tour, trip, walk, walking, wander), Centro Comercial (shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall), Calle Peatonal (pedestrian street, pedestrian thoroughfare, pedestrianised street), Alameda (Grove, walk). (various references)

Swedish

slägga (about-sledge, hammer, maul, sledge, sledgehammer), köpcentrum (shopping centre), Köpcenter, Esplanad (Avenue, esplanade). (various references)

Turkish

Mesire (promenade, resort), Vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), Tokmaklamak (beat with a mallet, beetle, swingle), Tokmak (beetle, gavel, hammer, knob, mallet, maul, stick), Dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), Alışveriş Merkezi (shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall), Ağaçlı Yol (Avenue, parkway, road lined with trees). (various references)

Ukrainian

Алея (Avenue), Гра В Кулі. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "mall": mallard, mallards, malleabilities, malleability, malleable, malled, mallee, mallees, mallei, malleoli, malleolus, mallet, mallets, malleus, malling, mallow, mallows, malls. (additional references)

Words ending with "mall": small, ultrasmall. (additional references)

Words containing "mall": abnormally, abysmally, animallike, animally, autosomally, baptismally, chromosomally, decimally, dismally, electrothermally, episomally, exothermally, formally, geothermally, hydrothermally, infinitesimally, informally, intradermally, isothermally, lognormally, marshmallow, marshmallows, marshmallowy, maximally, millesimally, minimally, nonmalleable, normally, optimally, paranormally, proximally, smallage, smallages, smallclothes, smaller, smallest, smallholder, smallholders, smallholding, smallholdings, smallish, smallmouth, smallmouths, smallness, smallnesses, smallpox, smallpoxes, smalls, smallsword, smallswords, subdermally. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mall" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amal, Laml, maal, Madl, mael, Mahl, maill, mald, malg, malila, Malk, Malla, malle, mallo, mally, malp, malr, Malu, Ma'lul, maull, mawl, Mballa, Mcal, meill, mel, mell, Melli, mgal, miell, mwali, myall, myll, omal, Omell, pmal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: all, lam.

-2 letters: al, am, la, ma.

+1 letter: llama, maill, malls, molal, mulla, small.

+2 letters: allium, calmly, fullam, lamely, llamas, maills, malled, mallee, mallei, mallet, mallow, maltol, mollah, mullah, mullas, slalom, smalls.

+3 letters: alliums, allonym, ampulla, armilla, balmily, bellman, calomel, fullams, gallium, lamella, laminal, liminal, lumenal, luminal, maillot, mallard, mallees, mallets, malleus, malling, mallows, maltols, manilla, manille, manlily, maxilla, maxwell, medulla, mesally, micella, millage, milldam, misally, miscall, modally, mollahs, morally, mullahs, osmolal, pallium, pullman, sawmill, slaloms, smaller, tollman, tramell, wadmoll.