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Main street

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The proper name of the main street of any of many villages, towns, or small cities, especially in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and some parts of Scotland.

    "Near-synonym: High Street (esp. UK)"

  2. 2
    Everyday working-class people and small business owners, especially with regard to their concerns, social views, etc. Canada, US, collective, idiomatic

    "Near-synonyms: High Street (UK); precariat, proletariat, working class, middle class"

Noun
  1. 1
    The principal street, or one of the several principal streets, of a town.

    "Invercargill in New Zealand has two main streets, Dee Street and Tay Street."

  2. 2
    street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town wordnet
  3. 3
    any small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis) wordnet

Etymology

The street name sense is by proprialization from main street. The everyday-people sense is by metonymy.

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