Meaning of Main Street | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The principal street, or one of the several principal streets, of a town.
2. 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.
3. Everyday working-class people and small business owners, especially with regard to their concerns, social views, etc.
   Canada, US, collective, idiomatic

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Examples

“Near-synonym: High Street (esp. UK)”

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

“Thanks to a $700 billion TARP bailout and hundreds of billions of dollars in nearly free of charge loans by the Federal Reserve (a policy Soros himself told me was a "hidden gift" to the banks), Wall Street has surged back to pre-crisis levels of compensation even as Main Street continues to struggle.”

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

“"The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.”

“An almost 19th-century atmosphere has returned to Beetham since the M6 motorway drew away the traffic which used to roar along its main street.”

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