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Synonyms for main
meɪn, maɪnmain
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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?
The main feature and top advantage of social media, which has made it such a powerful instrument in the hands of PR experts, is the ability to share - and especially the intriguing possibility of seeing your post go viral. In that case, your post is so catchy and contagiuos that it spreads like an epidemic and can consequently become a pandemic.
Their loss is one of the main reasons that communities lack grocery stores and other basic retail in the first place.
But in practice, there are also foreigners who were deported before finishing their main sentence.
This site was used as a main center by ISIS religious police, a center of the IS leadership. So this is an important issue, the visit of the Pope to this site that was the central administrative center of the Islamic State. This is where the Islamic State said 'we will go to Rome, occupy Rome, and cut off the head of the Pope.'.
Fisher-Price and Mattel, their parent company, we are in negotiations to discuss kind of what we expect from talking about and speaking out on the dangers of this chair, our main thing is to inform other people so, that it won't happen to somebody else.
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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