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  • noun Plural form of megamall.

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Examples

  • The largest malls included several anchor stores and exceeded 1 million square feet; so-called megamalls, such as the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, and the Mall of America outside Minneapolis, could be as large as 6 million square feet, housing amusement parks and hotels as well as stores.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • The largest malls included several anchor stores and exceeded 1 million square feet; so-called megamalls, such as the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, and the Mall of America outside Minneapolis, could be as large as 6 million square feet, housing amusement parks and hotels as well as stores.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • The largest malls included several anchor stores and exceeded 1 million square feet; so-called megamalls, such as the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, and the Mall of America outside Minneapolis, could be as large as 6 million square feet, housing amusement parks and hotels as well as stores.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • The chain-store industry in China is many years away from being able to fill the "megamalls" you note.

    Mail Call 2007

  • In townships like Soweto, in southern Johannesburg, megamalls have largely displaced street traders.

    Wal-Mart Checks Out a New Continent Robb M. Stewart 2010

  • But not when so many Americans can go abroad (even if lots of us never do), and when Epcot, Las Vegas, and the food courts at megamalls, international airports and other locales so readily provide us with a vicarious sense of journeying or eating our way around the world.

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom: California Dreamin' at China's World's Fair Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2010

  • Illness is, of course, to be avoided, and also megamalls and meetings involving vice presidents.

    Writing Maxine 2009

  • But what I learned from many a resident was that in this Shanghai as epitome of urban post-modernism, the official spin was in fact clashing head-on with an apotheosis of steel and glass towers, car-friendly boulevards, megamalls and impersonal squares; that is, the cost and waste of reproducing a Western development model.

    Pepe Escobar: Shanghai and the Mystery of China's Soft Power 2010

  • But what I learned from many a resident was that in this Shanghai as epitome of urban post-modernism, the official spin was in fact clashing head-on with an apotheosis of steel and glass towers, car-friendly boulevards, megamalls and impersonal squares; that is, the cost and waste of reproducing a Western development model.

    Pepe Escobar: Shanghai and the Mystery of China's Soft Power 2010

  • Indonesia's second-largest city suffers from too many cars and megamalls and not enough city planning.

    Trowulan: Indonesia's Ancient Empire 2010

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