What is the meaning of Main Street?

noun

  • Street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town.
  • Any small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis. )
    • usage: "Main Street will never vote for a liberal politician"
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