Main Street
noun
1
: the principal street of a small town
2
a
: the sections of a country centering about its small towns
b
: a place or environment characterized by materialistic self-complacent provincialism
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Little Rock, 1911: Main Street has seen many parades over the decades, but none larger or longer than that for the closing day of the United Confederate Veterans reunion.
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Ray Hanley, Arkansas Online, 9 Apr. 2025
The shop’s location on busy Main Street/Route 72 puts it near a several of other businesses, including a gas station, and in close proximity Route 25.
—Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
For Serena, that’s New Bethlehem, which has about as much in common with Gilead as Disney’s Main Street USA does with, well, anywhere in the USA.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Officers responded to the area of 2222 Main Street around 7:13 p.m. Monday on a report of a bicyclist struck by a vehicle, according to Lt. Aaron Boisvert of the Hartford Police Department.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2025
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Ray Hanley, Arkansas Online, 9 Apr. 2025
The shop’s location on busy Main Street/Route 72 puts it near a several of other businesses, including a gas station, and in close proximity Route 25.
—Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
For Serena, that’s New Bethlehem, which has about as much in common with Gilead as Disney’s Main Street USA does with, well, anywhere in the USA.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Officers responded to the area of 2222 Main Street around 7:13 p.m. Monday on a report of a bicyclist struck by a vehicle, according to Lt. Aaron Boisvert of the Hartford Police Department.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Main Street.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Main%20Street. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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