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  • 61Main — /mayn/; Ger. /muyn/, n. a river in central and W Germany, flowing W from the Bohemian Forest in N Bavaria into the Rhine at Mainz. 305 mi. (490 km) long. * * * (as used in expressions) Frankfurt am Main Main River Spanish Main * * * …

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  • 62Main — Recorded as Mane, Main, Maine, Mayne, and the patronymic or locational Mains, this very interesting surname can be English, Scottish, Dutch Flemish, French, Scandanavian, or German in origin. However in almost all cases the derivation is from the …

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  • 63main — 1. adjective the main item Syn: principal, chief, head, leading, foremost, most important, major, ruling, dominant, central, focal, key, prime, master, premier, primary, first, first line, fundamental …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 64main — See: IN THE MAIN, WITH MIGHT AND MAIN …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 65main — See: IN THE MAIN, WITH MIGHT AND MAIN …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 66main — [OE] Main goes back to prehistoric Germanic *mag ‘be able, have power’ (source also of English may and might, and distantly related to machine). From it was descended Old English mægen ‘strength’. This now survives as a noun only in the… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 67main — фр. [мэн] рука ◊ main droite [мэн друа/т] правая рука main gauche [мэн гош] левая рука …

    Словарь иностранных музыкальных терминов

  • 68main — See: in the main, with might and main …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 69MAIN — abbr. MAIN STREET & MAIN INC NASDAQ …

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  • 70main — adj 1. chief, principal, cardinal, prime, primary, capital; paramount, preeminent, premier, supreme, first, foremost, head, headmost, top, topmost; leading, crowning, ruling, overruling, prevailing; uppermost, important, most important,… …

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