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Main street has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town

2

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"

3

the principal street of a town, but not necessarily named "Main Street" (qv); there can be more than one main street in some towns.

Proper Noun
1

The generic street name (and often the official name) of the primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in the United States, Canada, Ireland, some parts of Scotland and also in some countries in central Europe.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
street town
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
main drag
Rhyming Words
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