main
/meɪn/ noun C2- That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
- The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character. · My WoW main has reached level cap and I’m on my way getting my first alt there as well.
- A main account. · His main got banned after his last post.
- A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main. · There's a gas leak in the main outside the building.
- The high seas.
Plural mains
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Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land and there it was to this day, barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avonlea houses were so sociably situated.
She was sitting there waiting for something or somebody and, since sitting and waiting was the only thing to do just then, she sat and waited with all her might and main.
“The English law is in the main a just law.
Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
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