Definitions of mainstream [ˈmeɪnˌstrim]

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Definition of 'mainstream'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) mainstream
the principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend.

2. mainstream
a river having tributaries.

3. (adj.) mainstream
belonging to or characteristic of a principal or widely accepted group, movement, style, etc.

4. (v.t.) mainstream
to send into the mainstream.

5. mainstream
to place in regular school classes:
to mainstream handicapped children.

Etymology: (1660–1670)

Definition of 'mainstream'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) mainstream
the prevailing current of thought
"his thinking was in the American mainstream"

Definition of 'mainstream'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) mainstream
the ideas or ways of doing things used by most people
the mainstream of popular music; lifestyles that are outside the mainstream; mainstream culture/media

Translation of 'mainstream'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the chief direction or trend of a system of theories, developments etc the mainstream of traditional art.
Afrikaans: hoofstroom	Arabic: الإتِّجاه أو التيّار الرّ	Bulgarian: тенденция
Brazilian: corrente	Czech: hlavní proud	German: die Hauptströmung
Danish: hovedstrømning	Greek: κυρίαρχη τάση, μόδα	Spanish: corriente principal
Estonian: põhihoovus	Farsi: جریان	Finnish: valtavirta
French: courant dominant	Hebrew: הָזֶרֶם הַמֶרכָּזִי	Hindi: मुख्य विचारधारा
Croatian: pravac, usmjerenje	Hungarian: fő áram/(irány)vonal/vonu	Indonesian: kecenderungan
Icelandic: meginstraumur, ríkjandi s	Italian: corrente principale	Japanese: 主流
Korean: 주류, 대세	Lithuanian: vyraujanti kryptis/tenden	Latvian: tendence, galvenais virzi
Malay: aliran utama	Dutch: heersende stroming	Norwegian: hovedtendens/-strømning
Polish: główny nurt	Persian: جریان	Pashto: جريان
Portuguese: corrente	Romanian: curent dominant	Russian: основное направление, гос
Slovak: hlavný prúd	Slovenian: glavna smer	Serbian: glavni tok
Swedish: huvudströmning, ledande r	Thai: ทิศทางหรือแนวโน้มหลักของร	Turkish: ana görüş/eğilim
Taiwanese: 主流	Ukrainian: основний напрямок	Urdu: رائج الوقت خیال، رجحان
Vietnamese: xu thế chủ đạo	Chinese: 主流
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