plaza, mall, center, shopping mall, shopping center, shopping centre
(noun) 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”
promenade, mall
(noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)
(chiefly, North America, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. [from 20th c.]
An enclosed shopping centre. [from 20th c.]
(obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th-19th c.]
A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade. [from 18th c.]
A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall. [from 17th c.]
(obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
(obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall. [17th-19th c.]
mall (third-person singular simple present malls, present participle malling, simple past and past participle malled)
to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
to build up with the development of shopping malls
(informal) to shop at the mall
Source: Wiktionary
Mall, n. [Written also maul.] Etym: [OE. malle, F. mail, L. malleus. Cf. Malleus.]
1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. Addison.
2. A heavy blow. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. Cotton.
4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk. 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. Southey.
Mall, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malled; p. pr. & vb. n. Malling.] Etym: [Cf. OF. mailler. See Mall beetle, and cf. Malleate.]
Definition: To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
Mall, n. Etym: [LL. mallum a public assembly; cf. OHG. mahal assembly, transaction; akin to AS. mæ, me, assembly, m to speak, Goth. mapl market place.]
Definition: Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly. Hence: (a) A court of justice. (b) A place where justice is administered. (c) A place where public meetings are held. Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased. Milman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 May 2025
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
