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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun shopping center has 1 sense

• shopping center(n = noun.artifact) center, mall, plaza, shopping centre, shopping mall - 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"
has parts: food court
is a kind of mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet

THESAURUS

shopping center

Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, art center, auto show, barrio, bazaar, black ghetto, blighted area, boat show, business district, capital, central city, city center, commercial complex, core, downtown, emporium, exposition, fair, flea fair, flea market, garment center, ghetto, greenbelt, inner city, manufacturing center, market, market overt, marketplace, mart, medical center, metropolis, midtown, open market, outskirts, plaza, railroad center, red-light district, residential district, rialto, run-down neighborhood, shipping center, shopping mall, shopping plaza, show, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, staple, street market, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, tourist center, trade center, trade fair, uptown, urban blight, urban center

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