Mainstreet vs Mall - What's the difference?
mainstreet | mall |
A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
A heavy blow.
An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall.
A place where the game of mall was played.
A public walk; a level shaded walk.
* Southey
(US, Australia) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
* 2002 , Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t ,
An enclosed shopping centre.
* 2004 , Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well ,
* 2010 , Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies ,
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.
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As nouns the difference between mainstreet and mall
is that mainstreet is (rare) while mall is trunk, large suitcase.mall
English
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- 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 .
- pedestrian mall
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- 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.
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- 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 .
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- In addition to Web site kits, ISPs, and businesses that specialize in Web hosting, online shopping malls provide another form of Web hosting.