Main

Quick meaning: Main is an adjective meaning Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

Meaning

Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.

More Meanings

1. Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
2. (nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
3. (British, dialectal) Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.
4. (transitive, slang) Ellipsis of mainline (“to inject (a drug) directly into a vein”).
5. (archaic, of force, strength, etc.) Full, sheer, undivided.
6. (dialectal) Big; angry.
7. (obsolete) Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.

Example Sentences

main timbers

main body of an army

main branch of a river

The main office is actually one of the smaller rooms.

Word Forms

• mains
• maining
• mained

Synonyms for main

Depending on context, synonyms include largest, principal, independent, primary, briny, chief.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include principal, primary, important, independent, chief, intense.

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