Definition of Mall

Pronunciation: mạl; 277
n.1.A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
2.A heavy blow.
3.An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
4.A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.
- Southey.
v. t.1.To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
[imp. & p. p. Malled (mạld); p. pr. & vb. n. Malling.]
n.1.Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.
Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased.
- Milman.
1.A public access area containing a promenade for pedestrians; as, to gather near the Washington monument on the mall in Washington.
2.The paved or grassy strip between two roadways.
3.A shopping area with multiple shops and a concourse for predominantly or exclusively pedestrian use; in cities the concourse is usually a city street which may be temporarily or permamently closed to motor vehicles; in suburban areas, a mall is often located on a convenient highway, may be large, contained in one building or in multiple buildings connected by (usually covered) walkways. Also called shopping mall


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