main street

See also: mainstreet and Main Street

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Noun

main street (plural main streets)

  1. The principal street, or one of the several principal streets, of a town.
    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.

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