Synonyms for mainstay

Grammar : Noun

Spell : meyn-stey

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmeɪnˌsteɪ

Top 10 synonyms for mainstay

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Définition of mainstay

Origin : "chief support," 1787, figurative use of a nautical noun meaning "stay which extends from the main-top to the foot of the foremast" (late 15c.), from main (adj.) + stay (n.).

noun chief support

Example sentences :

(p. 046) Throughout 1914 Paul was the mainstay of the magazine.
Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.

The working people of any community are the mainstay and backbone of that community.
Extract from : « Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading » by Various

Kuvalda loses his mainstay when his comrade, the schoolmaster, dies.
Extract from : « Maxim Gorki » by Hans Ostwald

Gory and grewsome,—he is the mainstay Of the historic novel of to-day.
Extract from : « A Phenomenal Fauna » by Carolyn Wells

Stick to your two little sisters, boy; you must be their mainstay when I am gone.
Extract from : « Tessa » by Louis Becke

During that whole winter the Randalls were the mainstay of the community.
Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl

It was not long before he was to be the mainstay of Virginia.
Extract from : « Historic Boyhoods » by Rupert Sargent Holland

Reasons of his own; that's the mainstay; as between man and man.
Extract from : « Treasure Island » by Robert Louis Stevenson

It has been my mainstay for more years than I care to think about.
Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling

But then the old man was the main hope of his life, and must be made its mainstay.
Extract from : « The Prime Minister » by Anthony Trollope

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