malls

n. shopping center, variety of stores and businesses housed within a series of connected buildings or within a single building; pedestrian walkway, promenade; pall-mall (game played with mallets and wooden balls)

For the traditional meaning of the word "mall", see pedestrian street or promenade.A shopping mall or shopping center is a building or set of buildings that contain a variety of retail units, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit. Strip malls have developed since the 1920s, corresponding to the rise of suburban living in the United States after World War II. As such, the strip mall development has been the subject of the same criticisms leveled against suburbanisation and suburban sprawl in general. In the United Kingdom these are called retail parks or out-of-town shopping centres.
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Noun
1. a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
(synonym) promenade
(hypernym) walk, walkway, paseo
(hyponym) esplanade
2. mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls"
(synonym) plaza, center, shopping mall, shopping center, shopping centre
(hypernym) mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, outlet

Noun
1. a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges
(synonym) sledge, sledgehammer
(hypernym) hammer
Verb
1. split (wood) with a maul and wedges
(hypernym) cleave, split, rive
(derivation) sledge, sledgehammer
2. injure badly by beating
(synonym) mangle
(hypernym) deface, disfigure, blemish
(entail) mutilate, mar
(derivation) mauler

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