Word Study
main street
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun main street has 2 senses
- main street(n = noun.artifact) high street - street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town; Array has particulars: main drag
- main street(n = noun.location) Array - 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" is a kind of town
is a kind of street
CIDE DICTIONARY
main street, n.
- A main thoroughfare, usually one in a small town having the largest concentration of retail businesses. [PJC]
- The attitudes, environment, or life style of a small town; -- usually capitalized, and often used attributively; as, Main Street attitudes toward Washington. [PJC]
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