mall
/mɔːl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; New Zealand usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "America′s first pedestrianized shopping mall opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian malls, it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown."
- "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."
- "Cancel plans just in case you'd call / And say, "Meet me behind the mall""
- "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."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mɔːl/