High Street en · PROPN
Etymology
From Middle English Highestrete. More at high street. The everyday-people sense is by metonymy.
Meanings
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(UK) The proper name of the high street in any of many villages, towns, or cities, especially in the United Kingdom and certain Commonwealth countries.
Near-synonym: Main Street (esp. US and Canada)
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(UK) The life and activities that archetypally happen on such a street: brick-and-mortar retail; the daily life of most people (everyone who is not among an out-of-touch rich elite).
This is a result of a switch from High Street to online retailing, requiring consumer goods to be delivered to the door from large-scale distribution parks that have sufficient traffic to justify a rail terminal.
2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:Near-synonym: Main Street (US and Canada)
- A hamlet in St Stephen-in-Brannel parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9653).
- A hamlet in Hawkhurst parish, Tunbridge Wells borough, Kent, England, on a road of the same name (OS grid ref TQ7430).
- A hamlet in Darsham parish, East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4170).