Definitions for main street

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

main′ street`(n.)

  1. the principal thoroughfare in a small town.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  2. (caps.) the outlook, environment, or life of a small town.

Origin of main street:

1735–45

main•streetˈmeɪnˌstrit(v.i.)

  1. Canadian.to campaign in an election by meeting the public along the main streets of towns and cities.

    Category: Canada/Canadian

Origin of mainstreet:

1955–60

main′street`er

Princeton's WordNet

  1. main street, high street(noun)

    street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town

  2. Main Street(noun)

    any small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis)

    "Main Street will never vote for a liberal politician"

Wiktionary

  1. Main Street(ProperNoun)

    the generic street name (and often the official name) of the primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in the United States, Canada, Ireland, some parts of Scotland and also in some countries in central Europe.

  2. Main Street(ProperNoun)

    the interests of everyday working-class people and small business owners.


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