Definition of "mall" []

• A large, often enclosed shopping complex containing various stores, businesses, and restaurants usually accessible by common passageways. (noun)
• A street lined with shops and closed to vehicles. (noun)
• A shady public walk or promenade. (noun)
• Chiefly Upstate New York See median strip. See Regional Note at neutral ground. (noun)
• Variant of maul. (noun)

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• "Some of those are rather flattered by the term "mall" – in the same way that shops in India claiming to be "fancy goods stores" sell neither Fabergé eggs nor Brabantia dustbins, but canisters of talcum powder."
• "On the floor of the mall is a casual replica of Big Ben."
• "This beautiful urban mall—in the old sense of the word "mall"—feels very European."