NOUN | artifact | main street, high street | street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town |
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location | Main Street | any small town (or the people who inhabit it) |
Meaning | street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town. | |
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Synonym | high street | |
Narrower | main drag | The main street of a town or city |
Broader | street | A thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings |
Spanish | calle mayor, calle principal | |
Catalan | carrer gran, carrer major, carrer principal |
Meaning | Any small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis). | |
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Broader | town | An urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city |
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