mall

UK: /ˈmɔːl/ US: /mɔl/ ,(môl; Brit. also mal)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

mall /mɔl/   n. [countable]

1. a large area with many shops and restaurants in nearby buildings or in a single large building.
2. a city street lined with shops and closed off to motor vehicles.
3. a large area with shade trees used as a public walk.
4. a strip of land separating two roadways.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

mall  (môl; Brit. also mal), n. 

1. Also called shopping mall. a large retail complex containing a variety of stores and often restaurants and other business establishments housed in a series of connected or adjacent buildings or in a single large building. Cf. shopping center. 
2. a large area, usually lined with shade trees and shrubbery, used as a public walk or promenade.
3. Dialect Terms [Chiefly Upstate New York.] a strip of land, usually planted or paved, separating lanes of opposite traffic on highways, boulevards, etc.
4. Games the game of pall-mall.
5. Games the mallet used in the game of pall-mall.
6. Games the place or alley where pall-mall was played.

• 1635–45; by ellipsis from pall mall; see mell²

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mall / mæl mɔːl/ noun

1. a shaded avenue, esp one that is open to the public
2. 
   short for shopping mall

Etymology: 17th Century: after The Mall, in St James's Park, London. See pall-mall