Synonyms for main line
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
Top 10 synonyms for main line Other synonyms for the word main line
- aristocracy
- beau monde
- beautiful people
- best
- blooming
- blue blood
- carriage trade
- choice
- country club set
- country set
- cream
- crème de la crème
- crowd
- doing well
- easy
- elect
- fast lane
- fat
- flower
- gentility
- gentry
- glitterati
- halcyon
- haut monde
- high society
- in clover
- in the money
- in-crowd
- jet set
- jet-set
- lousy rich
- lucky
- main line
- main-line
- money to burn
- moneyed
- nobility
- old money
- on top of heap
- optimacy
- opulent
- palmy
- patriciate
- polite society
- pride
- prime
- prize
- prospering
- quality
- roaring
- select
- sitting pretty
- smart set
- snug
- society
- substantial
- top
- top drawer
- upper class
- upper crust
- upper-class
- uptown
- wealthy
- well
- well-heeled
- well-off
- well-to-do
- who's who
Définition of main line
Origin :- "principal line of a railway," 1841; meaning "affluent area of residence" is by 1917, originally (with capitals) that of Philadelphia, from the "main line" of the Pennsylvania Railroad which added local stops to a string of backwater towns west of the city late 19c. that helped turn them into fashionable suburbs.
- The Main Line, Philadelphia's most famous suburban district, was deliberately conceived in the 1870's and 1880's by the [Pennsylvania] Railroad, which built high-toned housing developments, ran hotels, more or less forced its executives to plunk their estates out there, and created a whole series of somewhat spurious Welsh towns along the railroad tracks. ... Now everybody assumes these all date from 1682, like the Robertses; but as Chestnut Hill people like to say, "nobody but Welsh peasants lived on the Main Line till the Railroad built it up." [Nathaniel Burt, "The Perennial Philadelphians," 1963]
- The original station stops were, in order out from the city, Overbrook, Merion, Narberth, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Paoli. The train line for commuters along it is the Paoli Local.
- As in prosperous : adj successful, thriving
- As in society : noun upper class of people
- As in patriciate : noun society
- As in upper crust : noun society
- As in elite : noun high-class persons
- It is part of the main line of his destiny then, and is working to an end.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- At Emerald, the rail to Springsure branches off from the main line to Barceldine.
- Extract from : « The Last Voyage » by Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
- From Kirk Kilisse there was a line of light railway joining the main line.
- Extract from : « Bulgaria » by Frank Fox
- The main line was joined a little distance west of Guantanamo.
- Extract from : « Plotting in Pirate Seas » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
- You reach it by a branch railway from Liskeard, on the Great Western main line.
- Extract from : « Legend Land, Volume 2 » by Various
- The kid was runnin' true to form and stickin' to the main line.
- Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford
- This rested on Chatterton's Hill, some distance in front of the main line.
- Extract from : « The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 » by Samuel Adams Drake
- The men were endeavoring to reset the switch for the main line contact.
- Extract from : « The Daughter of a Magnate » by Frank H. Spearman
- The branch joins the main line there and the tracks will be clear.
- Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- He rebuilt the main line and improved the value and credit of his property.
- Extract from : « The New Nation » by Frederic L. Paxson
Antonyms for main line
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