high street

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From Middle English Highestrete. More at high street. By surface analysis, the street name sense is by proprialization from high street (although diachronically, the strict standardization of the uppercase-proper-noun–versus–lowercase-common-noun distinction postdates the Middle English etymon). The everyday-people sense is by metonymy.

From Middle English high strete, highestrete, haye-strete, hye strete, heiȝe strete, from Old English hēahstrǣt (“high road”), equivalent to high + street.

71 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: rrugë kryesore — the main street of any town
• Arabic: الشَارِع الرَئِيسِيّ (aš-šāriʕ ar-raʔīsiyy) — the main street of any town
• Armenian: գլխավոր փողոց (glxavor pʻoġocʻ) — the main street of any town
• Azerbaijani: əsas küçə — the main street of any town
• Basque: kale nagusia — the main street of any town
• Belarusian: гало́ўная ву́ліца (halównaja vúlica) — the main street of any town
• Bulgarian: гла́вна у́лица (glávna úlica) — the main street of any town
• Catalan: carrer principal — the main street of any town
• Chinese Cantonese: 大街 (daai6 gaai1) — the main street of any town
• Chinese Mandarin: 大街 (dàjiē) — the main street of any town
• Czech: hlavní ulice — the main street of any town
• Danish: hovedgade — the main street of any town
• Dutch: hoofdstraat — the main street of any town
• Esperanto: ĉefa strato — the main street of any town
• Estonian: peatänav — the main street of any town
• Finnish: pääkatu — the main street of any town
• French: rue principale — the main street of any town
• French: grande rue — the main street of any town
• Galician: rúa principal — the main street of any town
• Georgian: მთავარი ქუჩა (mtavari kuča) — the main street of any town
• German: Hauptstraße — the main street of any town
• Greek: κύριος δρόμος (kýrios drómos) — the main street of any town
• Hebrew: רְחוֹב רָאשִׁי (rekhóv rashí) — the main street of any town
• Hindi: मुख्य सड़क (mukhya saṛak) — the main street of any town
• Hungarian: főutca — the main street of any town
• Icelandic: aðalstræti — the main street of any town
• Indonesian: jalan utama — the main street of any town
• Irish: mórshráid — the main street of any town
• Irish: príomhshráid — the main street of any town
• Italian: via principale — the main street of any town
• Japanese: 大通り (ōdōri) — the main street of any town
• Japanese: ハイ・ストリート (hai-sutorīto) — the main street of any town
• Korean: 큰길 (keun'gil) — the main street of any town
• Latvian: galvenā iela — the main street of any town
• Lithuanian: pagrindinė gatvė — the main street of any town
• Low German: Hauptstraat — the main street of any town
• Low German: Hööftstraat — the main street of any town
• Low German: Hauptstroot — the main street of any town
• Low German: Hööftstroot — the main street of any town
• Macedonian: главна улица (glavna ulica) — the main street of any town
• Malay: jalan utama — the main street of any town
• Maltese: triq il-kbira — the main street of any town
• Māori: waharoa — the main street of any town
• Māori: ara matua — the main street of any town
• Norwegian Bokmål: hovedgate — the main street of any town
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hovudgate — the main street of any town
• Persian: خیابان اصلی (xiyâbân asli) — the main street of any town
• Polish: główna ulica handlowa w mieście — the main street of any town
• Portuguese: rua principal — the main street of any town
• Romanian: strada principală — the main street of any town
• Russian: гла́вная у́лица (glávnaja úlica) — the main street of any town
• Russian: проспе́кт (prospékt) — the main street of any town
• Scottish Gaelic: sràid mhòr — the main street of any town
• Serbo-Croatian: главна улица — the main street of any town
• Serbo-Croatian: glavna ulica — the main street of any town
• Slovak: hlavná ulica — the main street of any town
• Slovene: glavna ulica — the main street of any town
• Spanish: calle principal — the main street of any town
• Swedish: huvudgata — the main street of any town
• Thai: ถนนหลัก (tha-non-lak) — the main street of any town
• Turkish: ana sokak — the main street of any town
• Turkish: ana cadde — the main street of any town
• Ukrainian: головна́ ву́лиця (holovná vúlycja) — the main street of any town
• Urdu: مرکزی سڑک (markazī saṛak) — the main street of any town
• Vietnamese: đường chính — the main street of any town
• Volapük: lesüt — the main street of any town
• Welsh: stryd fawr — the main street of any town
• Finnish: pääkadun liikkeet — mainstream shops
• Irish: mórshráid — mainstream shops
• Polish: sklepy mainstreamowe — mainstream shops
• Polish: sklepy tradycyjne — physical shops, in contrast to Internet shops