Synonyms for main lines
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for main lines Other synonyms for the word main lines
- beau monde
- beautiful people
- blue blood
- carriage trade
- country club set
- country set
- crème de la crème
- fast lane
- fat
- flower
- gentility
- gentry
- glitterati
- haut monde
- high society
- in-crowd
- jet set
- jet-set
- main line
- nobility
- old money
- optimacy
- patriciate
- polite society
- pride
- prime
- prize
- quality
- select
- smart set
- top
- top drawer
- upper class
- upper crust
- who's who
Définition of main lines
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 society : noun upper class of people
- As in patriciate : noun society
- As in upper crust : noun society
- As in elite : noun high-class persons
- Electric railways placed them in connection with the main lines.
- Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
- Both Varna and Bourgas are connected by railway with the main lines.
- Extract from : « Bulgaria » by Frank Fox
- The subjoined extract will illustrate these main lines of investigation.
- Extract from : « Researches on Cellulose » by C. F. Cross
- All the main lines of railway connect this state with the rest of the Republic.
- Extract from : « Mexico » by Charles Reginald Enock
- The Master said, We shall seldom get lost if we hold to main lines.
- Extract from : « The Sayings Of Confucius » by Confucius
- They are of variable quality, but good on the main lines of travel.
- Extract from : « The Automobilist Abroad » by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
- It may be said, I think, that there are three main lines of opinion.
- Extract from : « The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. » by Sir Leslie Stephen
- There are two main lines of subspeciation in Proechimys guyannensis.
- Extract from : « Speciation in the Brazilian Spiny Rats » by Joo Moojen
- Many of their main lines are deplorable; their branch lines are unspeakable.
- Extract from : « The Railroad Problem » by Edward Hungerford
- My journal of travel is a brief one, and keeps to a few of the main lines.
- Extract from : « Fresh Fields » by John Burroughs
Antonyms for main lines
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