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Mall

Noun CEFR B2 Frequent
mɔːl

Definitions

  1. A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
  2. An enclosed shopping centre.
  3. An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
  4. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
  5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
  6. The game of polo.
  7. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.

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Examples

“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 […]”
“But playing with the Boy ar Mall, (I rue the Time, and ever shall) I struck the Ball, I know⟳ not how”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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