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Mainstream

//meɪn.stɹiːm// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc.

    "They often carry stories you won't find in the mainstream media."

Noun
  1. 1
    The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air
  2. 2
    the prevailing current of thought wordnet
  3. 3
    That which is common; the norm. usually

    "ideas outside of the mainstream"

Verb
  1. 1
    To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream. transitive

    "Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream."

  2. 2
    To become mainstream. intransitive

    "In a nonchurch context, we can look more explicitly at formerly New Age practices to see if and how they have mainstreamed."

  3. 3
    To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students. US, transitive

    "Despite these beliefs, the decision to send my son to a regular school was not made easily. I didn't know of any child as disabled as he who had been mainstreamed."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From main + stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”).

Etymology 2

From main + stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”).

Etymology 3

From main + stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”).

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