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Noun: Main Street
  1. 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"
Noun: main street
  1. Street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town
    - high street [Brit]
     
  2. The main street of a town or city
    - main drag [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: main streets, Main Streets

Type of: street, town

Encyclopedia: Main Street, Gibraltar

Main street