high street

See also: highstreet and High Street

English

Alternative forms

• highstreet
• High Street

Etymology

From Middle English high strete, highestrete, haye-strete, hye strete, heiȝe strete, from Old English hēahstrǣt (“high road”), equivalent to high +‎ street.

Noun

high street (plural high streets)

1. (UK, Ireland, parts of New England) The main street of any town.
2. (UK, Ireland) Mainstream shops, banks, etc. that can be found on such a street, in contrast to more specialist shops and services.
   • 2008 December 27, “Woolworths store closures begin”, in BBC:

     Woolworths has had a presence on the UK High Street for almost a century.

3. (UK, Ireland) Physical, bricks and mortar shops, in contrast to Internet shops.

Synonyms

• (the primary artery of a town): Main Street (US, Canada)
• (physical shops): bricks and mortar

Related terms

• highgate
• high road
• highway

Translations

the main street of any town

• Albanian: rrugë kryesore
• Arabic: الشَارِع الرَئِيسِيّ m (aš-šāriʕ ar-raʔīsiyy)
• Armenian: գլխավոր փողոց (glxavor pʻoġocʻ)
• Azerbaijani: əsas küçə
• Basque: kale nagusia
• Belarusian: гало́ўная ву́ліца f (halóŭnaja vúlica)
• Bulgarian: гла́вна у́лица f (glávna úlica)
• Catalan: carrer principal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大街 (zh) (dàjiē)

• Czech: hlavní ulice f
• Danish: hovedgade (da) c
• Dutch: hoofdstraat (nl)
• Esperanto: ĉefa strato
• Estonian: peatänav
• Finnish: pääkatu (fi)
• French: rue principale f, grande rue (fr) f
• Galician: rúa principal f
• Georgian: მთავარი ქუჩა (mtavari kuča)
• German: Hauptstraße (de) f
• Greek: κύριος δρόμος m (kýrios drómos)
• Hebrew: רְחוֹב רָאשִׁי m (rekhóv rashí)
• Hindi: मुख्य सड़क f (mukhya saṛak)
• Hungarian: főutca (hu)
• Icelandic: aðalstræti (is) m
• Indonesian: jalan utama (id)
• Irish: mórshráid f, príomhshráid f
• Italian: via principale f
• Japanese: 大通り (ja) (おおどおり, ōdōri), ハイ・ストリート (hai-sutorīto)
• Korean: 큰길 (ko) (keun'gil)
• Latvian: galvenā iela f
• Lithuanian: pagrindinė gatvė f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Hauptstraat f, Hööftstraat f, Hauptstroot f, Hööftstroot f

• Macedonian: главна улица f (glavna ulica)
• Malay: jalan utama
• Maltese: triq il-kbira f
• Maori: waharoa, ara matua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hovedgate m or f

  Nynorsk: hovudgate f

• Persian: خیابان اصلی (fa) (xiyâbân asli)
• Polish: główna ulica f
• Portuguese: rua principal f
• Romanian: strada principală f
• Russian: гла́вная у́лица f (glávnaja úlica), проспе́кт (ru) m (prospékt)
• Scottish Gaelic: sràid mhòr f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: главна улица f

  Roman: glavna ulica f

• Slovak: hlavná ulica f
• Slovene: glavna ulica f
• Spanish: calle principal f
• Swedish: huvudgata (sv) c
• Thai: ถนนหลัก (tha-non-lak)
• Turkish: ana sokak, ana cadde (tr)
• Ukrainian: головна́ ву́лиця f (holovná vúlycja)
• Urdu: مرکزی سڑک f (markazī saṛak)
• Vietnamese: đường chính (塘正)
• Volapük: lesüt (vo)
• Welsh: stryd fawr f

mainstream shops

• Finnish: pääkadun liikkeet
• Irish: mórshráid f

physical shops, in contrast to Internet shops

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