Synonyms for most mainline
- dominant
- key
- leading
- main
- major
- outstanding
- paramount
- predominant
- preeminent
- primary
- prime
- prominent
- arch
- capital
- cardinal
- champion
- chief
- essential
- first
- head
- maximum
- premier
- sovereign
- star
- superior
- controlling
- crowning
- foremost
- greatest
- highest
- incomparable
- mainline
- matchless
- peerless
- prevailing
- second-to-none
- stellar
- strongest
- supereminent
- supreme
- transcendent
- unapproachable
- unequaled
- unparalleled
- unrivaled
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Antonyms for most mainline
- inconspicuous
- inessential
- inferior
- insignificant
- last
- lesser
- minor
- nonessential
- ordinary
- secondary
- subordinate
- trivial
- unimportant
- unknown
- auxiliary
- least
- lower
- poor
- extra
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WORD 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 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.
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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