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Synonyms for main
meɪn, maɪnmain
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Princeton's WordNet
main, brinynoun
any very large body of (salt) water
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unimportant, mildmainadjective
a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage
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mild, unimportantchief(a), main(a), primary(a), principal(a), master(a)adjective
most important element
"the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch"
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mild, unimportantindependent, main(a)adjective
(of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
"the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"
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unimportant, mildmain(a)adjective
of force; of the greatest possible intensity
"by main strength"
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unimportant, mild
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List of paraphrases for "main":
principal, major, primary, key, senior, core, leading, mainly, chief, top, large, hand, basic, fundamental, essential, principale, central, parent, master, great, lead, prime, keynote, big, primarily, predominant, predicate, dominant, largest, foremost, salient, important, overriding, mainstream, greatest, principaux, significant, first, overarching
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#83 | first | |
#104 | top | |
#209 | great | |
#330 | big | |
#373 | main | |
#462 | large | |
#569 | key | |
#570 | body | |
#573 | important | |
#638 | major | |
#644 | hand | |
#686 | central | |
#945 | basic | |
#1176 | lead | |
#1243 | primary | |
#1314 | master | |
#1406 | significant | |
#1445 | senior | |
#1465 | leading | |
#1617 | core | |
#1771 | parent | |
#1793 | chief | |
#1812 | largest | |
#2108 | prime | |
#2131 | essential | |
#2791 | majority | |
#2831 | principal | |
#3023 | greatest | |
#3977 | bulk | |
#3985 | primarily | |
#4284 | mainly | |
#4428 | fundamental | |
#5725 | trunk | |
#7495 | mainstream | |
#7834 | dominant | |
#11587 | keynote | |
#14599 | foremost | |
#18685 | predicate | |
#23124 | predominant | |
#26134 | overriding | |
#28158 | salient | |
#34667 | overarching | |
#68565 | principale | |
#120905 | principaux | |
#125484 | briny |
How to use main in a sentence?
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert brings no experience, no understanding and, frankly, no interest in learning, state Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert main claim to this role is State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert willingness to defend the indefensible as a spokesperson. It's hard to believe that Brian Dixon could further diminish the view of Richard Gowan in the world, but this appointment is likely to do it.
Four years in the making. We arrived late at night and met our friend Paolo in the main piazza. They’ve decided to named their home.
It’s the main engine driving the terror radicalization process. Any effort to combat Islamist terrorism needs to take the MB's global network into account.
Investment banks' main trading partners over the last 20 years have been other financial institutions. So the revenue potential has been reduced. The landscape has changed.
The fact that my posts are massively engaged has paid off for me, my main concern right now is that the number of followers a user has now defaults to be the main metric.
Translations for main
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- رَئِيسِيّArabic
- anaAzerbaijani
- гало́ўныBelarusian
- principalCatalan, Valencian
- hlavníCzech
- vigtigsteDanish
- Hauptleitung, hauptsächlich, Haupt-German
- κυρίωςGreek
- ĉefaEsperanto
- principalSpanish
- pea-Estonian
- اصلیPersian
- pää-, pääasiallinen, iso, valta, pääjohtoFinnish
- principalFrench
- ard-phiobManx
- ראשיHebrew
- főHungarian
- terutama, paling pentingIndonesian
- principaleItalian
- עיקריHebrew
- 主, 主要Japanese
- მთავარიGeorgian
- បំពង់ធំ, ដើមKhmer
- 주요한Korean
- pelagusLatin
- matuaMāori
- utama, tinoMalay
- hoofdzakelijke, voornaamste, belangrijkst, belangrijkste, hoofdzakelijkDutch
- hoved-Norwegian
- głównyPolish
- principalPortuguese
- основной, главныйRussian
- hlavnýSlovak
- glávenSlovene
- allmän, huvud, huvudsaklig, generellSwedish
- ముఖ్యమైన, ప్రధానమైనTelugu
- anaTurkish
- مرکزیUrdu
- chủ yếu, chủ, chính, quan trọngVietnamese
- cifikVolapük
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