main street

See also: mainstreet and Main Street

English edit

main street (plural main streets)

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.
- 1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
  "The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.

principal street of a town