main street
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1.4
- noun
- /meɪn striːt/
- US
:
calle principal
- In the center of town, all the shops and restaurants line the main street.
- crowd on main street
- located on main street
- main street in the city
We shot it in the middle of Main Street and the and the cop stopped.
- We shot it in the middle of Main Street and the and the cop stopped.
- And it may be, but the Japanese people, when I would, the only time I'd be on fucking, I'd be on stage is when I'm crossing Main Street to go to locker rooms to change.
- I get a call of a of a young infant, you know, not breathing the streets with so much snow that you want to go down the main streets.
Examples
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Will I walk down the main street!
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The pictures showed Andy in front of their cabin, then on the main street in front of the bank.
Fiction book (1993) -
And her parents had a store there in the main street.
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This is the main street.
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You just drive them straight down that main street... and let the folks have a look at them.
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The three of them were a block off the main street of town.
Fiction book (1996) -
This is the main shopping centre of the city, the Main Street with all the shops on it.
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The shops along the main street closed, one after the other.
Fiction book (1996) -
I know my island and I know the main street and that's all.
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Picard was walking down the main street back toward the gates.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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1.1
A big road that carries most traffic and connects towns
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5.1
A main road that people use to travel between places
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3.3
The main street in a town where most shops and banks are
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5.1
A street in a town where most shops and restaurants are
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4.4
A main road that carries a lot of traffic through a city
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from 'main' (primary, chief) + 'street' (a public road), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the principal thoroughfare. This compositional pattern is common and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, making the expression immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Main street comes from small towns where one road was the most important. Shops, markets and parades used that main street, so it became the town's center and today the phrase means the town's 'main road'.