Dictionary Entry
main
main is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hand or match at dice. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A hand or match at dice.
- 2noun
A stake played for at dice.
- 3noun
The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
- 4noun
A match at cockfighting.
- 5noun
A main-hamper.
- 6verb
Strength; force; might; violent effort.
- 7verb
The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
- 8verb
The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.
- 9verb
The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
- 10verb
principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.
- 11adjective
Very or extremely strong.
- 12adjective
Vast; huge.
- 13adjective
Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.
- 14adjective
Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.
- 15adjective
Important; necessary.
- 16adjective
Very; extremely; as, main heavy.
- 17noun
a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage
- 18noun
any very large body of (salt) water
Synonyms
- 19adjective
(of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
"the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"
Synonyms
- 20adjective
most important element
"the chief aim of living"
"the main doors were of solid glass"
- 21adjective
of force; of the greatest possible intensity
"by main strength"
Synonyms
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in main:
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for MAIN lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.