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main street

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main street
n.
1. The principal street of a small town.
2. Main Street
a. The inhabitants of small towns considered as a group.
b. A place that represents narrowness of view and smug complacency.

[Sense 2, after Main Street, a novel by Sinclair Lewis.]
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Noun1.main streetmain street - street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town
main 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"
Translations

main street ncalle f mayor
main street main nrue f principale

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The candy-striped pole, which indicates nobility proud and ancient along the palace-bordered canals of Venice, indicated merely the humble barbershop along the main street of Dawson's Landing.
It thus occurred that one day the two girls, on their way to the main street for an hour's shopping at the Villa de Paris and Variety Store, were stopped by Dick Mattingly a few yards from their house, with the remark that, as the county election was then in progress, it would be advisable for them to defer their intention for a few hours.
--Is there a main street to the village, like that in Wareham?
 
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