Meanings
noundead mall (plural dead malls)
plural dead malls
- A shopping center with high vacancy, low customer traffic, or significant physical deterioration.
It is strange to have a ghost town in the middle of a cosmopolitan city known as the birthplace of cutting-edge technology, but that is the feel inside San Francisco’s dead mall.
2025 August 2, Heather Knight, Coral Murphy Marcos, “A Day at Two San Francisco Malls, One That Died and One That Thrived”, in The New York Times, →ISSNSynonyms: ghost mall, zombie mall
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA shopping center with high vacancy, low customer traffic, or significant physical deterioration.
Similar
ghost mallzombie mall
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APA
dead mall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dead%20mall
MLA
“dead mall.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dead%20mall. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dead mall,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dead%20mall.
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