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main street
1noun
- the principal thoroughfare, especially through the business district, in a small town.
- (initial capital letters) the outlook, environment, or life of a small town.
Main Street
2noun
- a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.
Main Street
noun
- the most prominent street of a town, usually where the principal shops and businesses are situated
- ordinary people in general
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Word History and Origins
Origin of main street1
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Example Sentences
It likely would have appealed to many business people on Main Street, few of whom are free-market fundamentalists.
Most of all, Orman reflects a bubbling Main Street frustration with hyper-partisan gridlock.
Neatly hung laundry still dangled over the main street from the second-floor balcony of an apartment above a blown-out storefront.
The stimulus, with its emphasis on public sector jobs, did little for Main Street.
This is a paradise for activists and ideologues—Main Street voters, not so much.
In the larger village of Onao they met a group of chowkidars, or watchmen, in the main street.
Toby acquiesced; and they hurried through the main street of the little town, which at that late hour was wholly deserted.
The bloods will be too busy to notice as we ride down Main Street, and after that it won't matter.
Isabel tossed and kissed them, presenting them with a box of toys she had bought in Main Street.
A policeman courteously notified us that the main street of the city would be closed three hours for a Sunday School parade.
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