main

About 122.73 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

   The main office is actually one of the smaller rooms.

2. adjective Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.

   main timbers

3. adjective Full, sheer, undivided.
4. adjective Big; angry.
5. adjective Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
6. adjective Great in size or degree; important, powerful, strong, vast.
7. adverb Exceedingly, extremely, greatly, mightily, very, very much.
8. verb Ellipsis of mainline (“to inject (a drug) directly into a vein”).

Similar words

principal primary important independent chief intense briny of import prime premier

Often followed by

street body reason road purpose point source line features points

Word family

Main mains with might and main