mainstream

== English == === Etymology === From main +‎ stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /meɪn.stɹiːm/ === Adjective === mainstream (comparative more mainstream, superlative most mainstream) Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc. ==== Usage notes ==== Nouns often used with "mainstream": media, music, art, press, news, society, culture, economics, school, party, politics, religion, education, theory, science, philosophy, views ==== Synonyms ==== (used or accepted broadly): common, usual, widespread, conventional ==== Antonyms ==== fringe, nonmainstream, alternative ==== Translations ==== === Noun === mainstream (plural mainstreams) The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air (usually with the) That which is common; the norm. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === mainstream (third-person singular simple present mainstreams, present participle mainstreaming, simple past and past participle mainstreamed) (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. === Derived terms === === References === “mainstream”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “mainstream media”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. == Polish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English mainstream. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmɛjn.strim/ Rhymes: -ɛjnstrim Syllabification: main‧stream === Noun === mainstream m inan (related adjective mainstreamowy) mainstream (dominant way of thinking or the most popular form of action) (jazz) mainstream jazz (term coined in the 1950s by music journalist Stanley Dance, who considered anything within the popular jazz of the Swing Era "mainstream", and did not include the bebop style) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “mainstream”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[6] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “mainstream”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[7] (in Polish) mainstream in PWN's encyclopedia == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English mainstream. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmeinstɾim/ [ˈmẽĩns.t̪ɾĩm] Rhymes: -einstɾim Syllabification: mains‧tream === Noun === mainstream m (plural mainstreams) mainstream ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.