main road

Questions about main road

What does main road mean?

main road means "a major road for any form of motor transport".

What is another word for main road?

Close synonyms include highway. 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 main road a common word?

main road is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.