main street

Questions about main street

What does main street mean?

main street means "street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for main street?

Close synonyms include high 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 main street a common word?

main street 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.