Definitions for mainstay

mainstay main·stay

Spelling: [meyn-stey]
IPA: /ˈmeɪnˌsteɪ/

Mainstay is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 284 anagrams from letters in mainstay (aaimnsty).

Definitions for mainstay

noun

  1. Nautical. the stay that secures the mainmast forward.
  2. a person or thing that acts as a chief support or part:

Origin of mainstay

First recorded in 1475-85; main1 + stay2

Examples for mainstay

Stick to your two little sisters, boy; you must be their mainstay when I am gone.

Disobedience of the rules is a mainstay of nonviolent resistance.

De Robertis, an East Village mainstay, closes tomorrow—a moment for nostalgia, but also pragmatism.

(p. 046) Throughout 1914 Paul was the mainstay of the magazine.

The social media site has become a mainstay for propaganda and recruiting for most major groups.

The working people of any community are the mainstay and backbone of that community.

Gory and grewsome,—he is the mainstay Of the historic novel of to-day.

The one problem with Braley's remark is that it happened to reflect on a fellow Iowan who is a mainstay of Hawkeye State politics.

Foreign fighters are a mainstay of the rebellion against Assad.

Kuvalda loses his mainstay when his comrade, the schoolmaster, dies.

Word Value for mainstay
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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