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shopping mall

NOUN
mall
Synonyms
STRONGEST
marketplace
WEAK
shopping complex shopping plaza
NOUN
mall
Synonyms
STRONGEST
market plaza shopping center
STRONG
mart
WEAK
commercial center mini-mart
NOUN
market/mart
Synonyms
WEAK
bazaar bodega booth business chain store co-op corner store deli delicatessen department store dimestore drugstore emporium exchange fair general store grocery store mall outlet shop showroom souk square stall stock exchange store supermarket trading post truck variety store warehouse
NOUN
shopping center
Synonyms
STRONGEST
arcade bazaar flea market mall plaza
WEAK
agora concentrated area for shopping emporium fair galleria market marketplace mart mini-mall piazza shopping complex shopping plaza strip mall

Example Sentences

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Set in a Dallas shopping mall, “Forbidden Fruits” revolves around an elite clique of retail employees who run a witches’ coven out of the basement of their boho boutique Free Eden.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

How Taylor Swift saved a dying shopping mall.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, the shopping mall evolved from a place to buy things into a destination for all kinds of family entertainment, often boasting large food courts, multiplex theaters, indoor playgrounds, video arcades and more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Most often, those trips centred around Plaza Las Américas, a massive shopping mall where, as Martínez Ocasio once said, "you didn't even know where you were standing".

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

One day in the summer recently, when he was visiting the United States to tend to some business, I met him in a coffee shop in a shopping mall not far from his home.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston