main street

See also: mainstreet and Main Street

English

Noun

main street (plural main streets)

1. the principal street of a town, but not necessarily named "Main Street" (qv); there can be more than one main street in some towns.

   Invercargill in New Zealand has two main streets, Dee Street and Tay Street.

   • 1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:

     "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 and crawl under, losing face.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd., page 53:

     An almost 19th-century atmosphere has returned to Beetham since the M6 motorway drew away the traffic which used to roar along its main street.

Derived terms

• Main
• Main Street
• SoMa
• South Main

 

Related terms

• high street
• main road

 

Translations

principal street of a town

• Arabic: جَادَّة (ar) f (jādda)
• Danish: hovedgade (da) c
• Esperanto: ĉefstrato
• Farefare: pallɛ
• French: grand-rue (fr) f, rue principale f
• German: Hauptstraße (de) f
• Hungarian: főutca (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hovedgate m or f

  Nynorsk: hovudgate f

• Old English: *hēafodstrǣt f
• Romanian: strada principală f
• Swedish: huvudgata (sv) c

References

• “main street”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• antimeters, intermates, martensite, misentreat, terminates, tetramines