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main street adjective Usage: usually capitalized M&S Etymology: main (II) + street (n.); influenced in meaning by Main Street (1920), novel by Sinclair Lewis died 1951 American novelist and playwright that portrays materialistic provincialism as a characteristic of American life in a small town : of or relating to the mediocre, materialistic, or drab aspects of average United States town and city life < the popularity of the Main Street theme — Nation > |