main street

main street

See also: mainstreet and Main Street

English

Noun

main street (plural main streets)

1. the principal street of a town, but not necessarily named "Main Street" (qv); there can be more than one main street in some towns.

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

Related terms

• high street
• main road

Translations

principal street of a town

Danish: hovedgade (da) c Esperanto: ĉefstrato German: Hauptstraße (de) f Hungarian: főutca (hu)

Norwegian: Bokmål: hovedgate m or f Nynorsk: hovudgate f Swedish: huvudgata (sv) c

References

• “main street” (US) / “main street” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• antimeters, intermates, martensite, misentreat, terminates, tetramines