Main Street

See also: mainstreet and main street

English

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Main Street

1. The generic street name (and often the official name) of the primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in the United States, Canada, Ireland, some parts of Scotland and also in some countries in central Europe.
2. (idiomatic, Canada, US, collective) Everyday working-class people and small business owners, especially with regard to their concerns, social views, etc.
   • 2011 January–February, Chrystia Freeland, “The rise of the new global elite”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 December 2015:

     Thanks to a $700 billion TARP bailout and hundreds of billions of dollars in nearly free of charge loans by the Federal Reserve (a policy Soros himself told me was a "hidden gift" to the banks), Wall Street has surged back to pre-crisis levels of compensation even as Main Street continues to struggle.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Main Street.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “big business interests”): (US) Wall Street, (Canada) Bay Street

Derived terms

• Main
• mainstreeting
• SoMa
• South Main

 

Translations

generic name of a primary street

• Finnish: valtakatu (fi)
• French: rue principale
• German: Hauptstraße (de) f; Dorfstraße (de) f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: rêya serekî f

• Maori: waharoa
• Russian: Центральная улица (Centralʹnaja ulica)

Anagrams

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