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View synonyms for main street

main street

1

noun

  1. the principal thoroughfare, especially through the business district, in a small town.
  2. (initial capital letters) the outlook, environment, or life of a small town.


Main Street

2

noun

  1. a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis.

Main Street

noun

  1. the most prominent street of a town, usually where the principal shops and businesses are situated
  2. ordinary people in general


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Word History and Origins

Origin of main street1

First recorded in 1735–45

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Example Sentences

“I believe by investing in transit, transit-oriented development, and for that matter rural main streets, in the right balance we can support people getting to where they need to be,” he said.

Together, they had opened a shop on Main Street in Moab to sell his screen-printed shirts.

This was a time in our nation’s history, Tresniowski reminds us, when “the dark-hearted mentality behind slavery remained in place, not in the corners and fringes of the country but on its main streets and in its town halls and courtrooms.”

Miss Chrishy owned a small store along the town’s main street.

Even though PPP loans are almost always turned into forgivable grants, businesses that got PPP loans could have had trouble getting an additional loan through the Main Street program.

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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