main road

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main road (plural main roads)

  1. A major road in a town or village, or in a country area.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 224, about Hertingfordbury:
      Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.
  2. (Northeastern US, UK) A major urban road, off which lead many smaller streets, many of them cul-de-sacs.
    Living near the main road means you hear a lot of traffic noise.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
  3. (South Africa) High Street; Main Street
  4. (in some countries) priority road; A road with entering traffic which must yield right of way

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