high street · noun1
- Old English · inherited fromhēahstrǣt“high road”
- Middle English · inherited fromhigh strete
- English todayhigh street
From Middle English high strete, highestrete, haye-strete, hye strete, heiȝe strete, from Old English hēahstrǣt (“high road”), equivalent to high + street.
High Street · proper noun2
- Middle English · inherited fromHighestrete
- English todayHigh Street
From Middle English Highestrete. More at high street. The everyday-people sense is by metonymy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.