Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shopping centre

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables: shop-ping -cen-tre
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large retail outlet consisting of several shops.

Australian usage; British usage

Example Sentences

"The streets radiated out from the new shopping centre like the spokes of a wheel."

Usage

Australian usage
British usage

Inflected Forms

shopping centres (plural) shopping center (alternative, US)

Synonyms

mall shopping mall plaza center shopping center centre

Questions

What does shopping centre mean?: A large retail outlet consisting of several shops.

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