mainstream
IPA: mˈeɪnstrim
noun
- The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air
- (usually with the) That which is common; the norm.
verb
- (transitive) To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream.
- (intransitive) To become mainstream.
- (transitive, education, chiefly US) To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.
adjective
- Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of a population or market.
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Examples of "mainstream" in Sentences
- We report the plodding mainstream.
- The mainstream is fickle like that.
- He only listens to the mainstream music.
- It is not a part of mainstream orthodontics.
- The car was unavailable in the mainstream market.
- The mainstream media disapproved of the decision.
- Calvinism is the mainstream of Reformed Protestantism.
- As for the comparison to the mainstream, check the source.
- The distinction is not clear in the mainstream at the moment.
- Our mission is to interweave America's Muslim population into mainstream society.
- I agree with your points about HRW, but can we limit the use of the term mainstream media.
- Big, small, and in-between - If they are what we call mainstream, they are good for public health.
- But I am actually beginning to think that what we know as the mainstream press might end up going the way of the Dodo bird after all.
- Well, some of the comics, what they call the mainstream Marvel Universe... um, no, it wasn't a divorce, it was a sort of magical, uh...
- Everyone in the mainstream is aware that Stephen King sells a lot of books, but they still don't acknowledge that anyone in the horror field can write.
- He says the problems in Inner Mongolia, which he says is a sensitive ethnic region similar to restless Tibet and Xinjiang, reflect growing grievances in what he describes as mainstream Chinese society.
- And this statement also went on to say that, sadly, from the Democrats 'perspective, they say that this congresswoman and this sentiment represents what they call the mainstream of the Republican Party.
- Zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambience, morals, and sociocultural direction or mood of an era (similar to the English word mainstream or trend).
- This year's version of the off-the-wall argument moving into the mainstream is the argument that John Kerry is disqualified for the presidency (or, apparently, for the Senate position he currently holds), because of the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment imposing disqualification as a sanction for people who, having sworn an oath to support the Constitution (as soldiers -- and members of Congress -- do), gives aid and comfort to the nation's enemies.