Synonyms for mainstay
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : meyn-stey |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmeɪnˌsteɪ |
Top 10 synonyms for mainstay Other synonyms for the word mainstay
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
- (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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