| main street n. 1. The principal street of a small town. 2. Main Street a. Average businesses and households considered as a group. b. The inhabitants of small American towns considered as having a narrow-minded or materialistic worldview. [Sense 2b, after Main Street, a novel by Sinclair Lewis.] |
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| Noun | 1. |  main street - street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a townmain drag - the main street of a town or city street - a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings; "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street" |
| 2. |  Main Street - 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"town - an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; "they drive through town on their way to work" |
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