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main street
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As a noun, main street means any small town (or the people who inhabit it).
Meanings of main street
2 meaningsnoun
Any small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis)location
“Main Street will never vote for a liberal politician”
Street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town
Similar: high street
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
noun: street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffi…
high street