mall

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

   The preliminary plans provide for one million square feet of selling space in three main buildings and a double row of shops along a central shopping mall.

2. 2
   noun

   An enclosed shopping centre.

   Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America′s enclosed shopping malls.

3. 3
   noun

   A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.

   I also fell slightly; but his fall proving a severe one, he arose in wrath, and struck me with the mall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously […]

5. 5
   noun

   An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.

   But playing with the Boy ar Mall, (I rue the Time, and ever shall) I struck the Ball, I know not how

6. 6
   noun

   mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers

7. 7
   noun

   a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk

8. 8
   noun

   An alley where the game of pall mall was played.

Etymology

Probably from The Mall, a major street in London, England, which was originally a pall mall alley.