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"word": "Main"
},
{
"word": "Main Street"
},
{
"word": "SoMa"
},
{
"word": "South Main"
}
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"text": "Invercargill in New Zealand has two main streets, Dee Street and Tay Street.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88",
"text": "\"The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.",
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}
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"the principal street of a town, but not necessarily named \"Main Street\" (qv); there can be more than one main street in some towns."
],
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"word": "high street"
},
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "jādda",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "جَادَّة"
},
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "principal street of a town",
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"common-gender"
],
"word": "hovedgade"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"word": "ĉefstrato"
},
{
"code": "gur",
"lang": "Farefare",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"word": "pallɛ"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "grand-rue"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "rue principale"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hauptstraße"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"word": "főutca"
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"sense": "principal street of a town",
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],
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"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hovudgate"
},
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"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hēafodstrǣt"
},
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "strada principală"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
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"common-gender"
],
"word": "huvudgata"
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]
}
],
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},
{
"word": "Main Street"
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{
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"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88",
"text": "\"The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "jādda",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "جَادَّة"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hovedgade"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"word": "ĉefstrato"
},
{
"code": "gur",
"lang": "Farefare",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"word": "pallɛ"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "grand-rue"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rue principale"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hauptstraße"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"word": "főutca"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "hovedgate"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hovudgate"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hēafodstrǣt"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "strada principală"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "principal street of a town",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "huvudgata"
}
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"word": "main street"
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