Definitions for malls

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malls mall

Spelling: [mawl; British also mal]

IPA: /mɔl; British also mæl/

Malls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in malls (allms).

Definitions for malls

noun

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. Compare shopping center.
2. a large area, usually lined with shade trees and shrubbery, used as a public walk or promenade.
3. Chiefly Upstate New York. a strip of land, usually planted or paved, separating lanes of opposite traffic on highways, boulevards, etc.
4. the game of pall-mall.
5. the mallet used in the game of pall-mall.
6. the place or alley where pall-mall was played.

Origin of malls

1635-45; the Mall, a fashionable tree-lined promenade in 18th-century London, where originally the game pall-mall was played; see mell

Examples for malls

“The mall is where the fine people walk in the afternoon,” she said.

There were more men at work on the mall and along the streets on either side.

Your general reaction runs along the lines of: “When will these geezers give it up and go for a mall walk or something?”

They walked slowly, still talking, until they came to the end of the mall.

Someone dressed as an Emirati woman killed an American teacher in a mall bathroom.

Contrary to what you may assume about me, I actually enjoy the occasional trip to the mall.

They had to go to the bazaar -- as the mall was then called -- and buy them.

Aimless also, I turned into the mall, and again I started at the sight of a known figure.

The figure enters the elevator and is then seen quickly leaving the mall, black cloth flapping behind it.

I told him everything you told me, out on the mall, the day you came home.