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発音

• (英国発音)
  • (shopping centre) IPA: /mɔːl/
  • (other senses) IPA: /mæl/
  • 韻: -æl, 韻: -ɔːl
• (General American, New England, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /mɔːl/
  • 韻: -ɔːl
  • Homophone: maul
  • • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /mɑl/
      • Homophone: moll

名詞

mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. [from 20th c.]
   • 1950 August 15, Philip Hampson, “Field's Plans 15 to 20 Million Shopping Center for Skokie”, in Chicago Daily Tribune‎, page 1:

     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.

   • 2002, Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn′t, page 179:

     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.

2. An enclosed shopping centre. [from 20th c.]
   • 2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don′t Need a Million to Retire Well, unnumbered page:

     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.

   • 2020, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, “August”, in Folklore:

     Cancel plans just in case you'd call / And say, "Meet me behind the mall"

3. (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th–19th c.]
4. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade. [from 18th c.]
   • 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism:

     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.

5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall. [from 17th c.]
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     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 […]

6. (obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
7. (obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1675, Charles Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque:

     But playing with the Boy ar Mall,
     (I rue the Time, and ever shall)
     I struck the Ball, I know not how

派生語

派生した語

• → Russian: молл (moll)

動詞

mall (third-person singular simple present malls, present participle malling, simple past and past participle malled)

1. to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
2. to build up with the development of shopping malls
3. (informal) to shop at the mall

参照

• “mall”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mall”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.