mains
About 1.17 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun plural of main
- noun The domestic electrical power supply, especially as connected to a network or grid.
I plugged it into the mains and it blew up!
- noun A large-scale network or grid supplying any of various other services, such as water, gas or sewerage, to properties.
We have gas heating, but it's bottled gas, not mains gas.
- noun The main course of a meal.
- verb third-person singular simple present indicative of main
- noun The farm attached to a mansion house.
Similar words
principal primary important independent chief intense briny of import electrical waterworks
Often followed by
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