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main street

main street noun: the principal street, or one of the several principal streets, of a town.

Noun

main street (plural main streets)

  1. The principal street, or one of the several principal streets, of a town.
    • Invercargill in New Zealand has two main streets, Dee Street and Tay Street.
    • "The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down...1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88

Proper noun capitalized: Main Street

Main Street

  1. The proper name of the main street of any of many villages, towns, or small cities, especially in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and some parts of Scotland.
    • Near-synonym: High Street (esp. UK)
    Synonyms:
    High Street
  2. (Canada, US, collective, idiomatic) Everyday working-class people and small business owners, especially with regard to their concerns, social views, etc.
    • Near-synonyms: High Street (UK); precariat, proletariat, working class, middle class
    • Main Street will never accept such fashions.

main street meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Arabic

main street in Tamil

நெடுந்தெரு, பெருந்தெரு, வியநெறி

main street in Kannada

ಪ್ರಧಾನ ಬೀದಿ, ರಾಜ ಮಾರ್ಗ

main street in Arabic

principal street of a town
جَادَّة jādda

Synonyms of main street

Forms of main street

pluralmain streets

Origin of main street

The street name sense is by proprialization from main street. The everyday-people sense is by metonymy.

Words formed from main street

Questions about main street

What does main street mean?
Main street means the principal street, or one of the several principal streets, of a town.
What is main street in Tamil?
Main street in Tamil is நெடுந்தெரு, பெருந்தெரு, வியநெறி. See Main street meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is main street?
Main street can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of main street?
The plural of main street is main streets.

Words near main street in the dictionary

  1. main stages
  2. Main Standard Time
  3. main stem
  4. main stream
  5. main streams
  6. main street
  7. main streets
  8. main thing
  9. main verb
  10. main verbs
  11. main wheel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: main street (page history and authors); Main Street (page history and authors); main street (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); main street (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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