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noun
chiefly North American the principal street of a town, traditionally the site of shops, banks, and other businesses:the money you save on a car can offset some of the higher prices on Main Street (Main Street) US used in reference to the materialism, mediocrity, or parochialism regarded as typical of small-town life: If you don’t get banks to lend again, Main Street is going to be in very big trouble[from the title of a novel (1920) by Sinclair Lewis]
