Main Street

mainstreet main street English thumb|Main Street, Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire Etymology The en street name name of a street sense is by proprialization from en main street. The everyday-people sense is by metonymy. Pronunciation en En-au-Main Street.ogg AU Proper noun Main Street The proper name of the main street of any of many villages, towns, or small cities, especially in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and some parts of Scotland. en High Street<qq:esp. UK> en idiomatic North America collective Everyday working-class people and small business owners, especially with regard to their concerns, social views, etc. en common man everyman en Wall Street Bay Street Sand Hill Road en High Street<qq:UK> ; precariat proletariat working class middle class en Main Street will never accept such fashions. en w:Chrystia Freeland The rise of the new global elite http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/308343/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151220065731/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/308343/ 20 December 2015 w:The Atlantic January–February 2011 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 en Derived terms en mainstreeting Main South Main SoMa Related terms en man on the street on the street word on the street Translations generic name of a primary street Bulgarian: bg Главна улица f Finnish: fi valtakatu French: fr rue principale German: de Hauptstraße f; de Dorfstraße f Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr rêya serekî f Māori: mi waharoa Polish: pl główna ulica handlowa w mieście f Russian: ru Центральная улица Swedish: sv Storgatan Anagrams en aeeimnrstt antimeters intermates martensite misentreat terminates tetramines en Collectives Named roads Roads en placeholder terms