Definitions for mainstream

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IPA: /ˈmeɪnˌstrim/

Mainstream is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 907 anagrams from letters in mainstream (aaeimmnrst).

Definitions for mainstream

noun

1. the principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend:
2. a river having tributaries.
3. regular school classes or regular schools:

adjective

1. belonging to or characteristic of a principal, dominant, or widely accepted group, movement, style, etc.:
2. of, relating to, or characteristic of jazz falling historically between Dixieland and modern jazz; specifically, swing music. Compare traditional (def 4).

verb (used with object)

1. to send into the mainstream; cause to join the main force, group, etc.:
2. to place (students with disabilities) in regular school classes.

verb (used without object)

1. to join or be placed in the mainstream.

Origin of mainstream

First recorded in 1660-70; main¹ + stream

Examples for mainstream

Dispensaries feel comfortable getting on board with a mainstream shopping holiday.

The largest group outside the community's mainstream was the black agricultural workers.

All the while they racked up favorable coverage in the mainstream press, and even more sycophantic mentions in the gay press.

This species may have utilized the mainstream as a refugium in the drought of 1952-'56.

Normally the water was about six inches deep in the mainstream as it ran over a riffle adjacent to the catfish nest.

With the return of continuous flow and a consequent rise in turbidity, bass declined in abundance in the mainstream.

Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.

Sure, there are radicals in the LGBT community who really are opposed to mainstream values—and some of them are my friends!

For OK Go, the four-piece band from Chicago, mainstream success started with eight treadmills and a choreographed dance routine.

When the mainstream of evolution on Darkover left the trees to struggle for existence on the ground, a few remained behind.