Dear and Main

Dear

Dear noun - A person with whom one is in love.

Main and dear are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Main" instead the word "Dear" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: dearly, deary, dearie

Main

Main noun - Muscular strength.

Dear and main are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dear" instead the word "Main" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: mainly, mainline

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Terms of Endangerment: Issac calls the main protagonist 'My dear' so often that she panics once when Tristan says 'My dear lord' while scaling a mountain.
  • Cool Old Lady In the video game version of The Darkness, one of your main contacts is a your 'auntie', a dear old lady who became involved with the Mafia when she fell in love with a young 'Don'.
    Source: Cool Old Lady
  • The main character, Mikage Sakurai, stays in her and her son Yuichi's house after the death of the dear grandmother who raised her.
    Source: Transsexual
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