high street

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmain street

   Broaderstreet

   Narrowermain drag

Questions about high street

What does high street mean?

high street means "street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town".

What is another word for high street?

Close synonyms include main street. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high street a common word?

high street is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.