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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also main-stream , main stream , "principal current of a river," 1660s, from main (adj.) + stream (n.); hence, "prevailing direction in opinion, popular taste, etc.," a figurative use first attested in Carlyle (1831). Mainstream media attested by 1980 in ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mainstream is current thought that is widespread. It includes all popular culture and media culture , typically disseminated by mass media . It is to be distinguished from subcultures and countercultures , and at the opposite extreme are cult followings ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the prevailing current of thought; "his thinking was in the American mainstream"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mainstream \main"stream`\ n. The prevailing opinion or practise; as, the doctor avoided using therapies outside the mainstream of modern medical practice.
Usage examples of mainstream.
So what is there about such cults that is so antipathetic to mainstream Catholicism?
Cohn, Roy, 156 Cold war, 46-47, 67-68, 102, 107-8, 139, 170: see also Soviet Union Colson, Charles, 208 Columbia University, 8, 10, 32, 33, 42, 45-49, 50, 52, 55, 97, 99, 100, 127, 139-40, 148, 160-61, 221 Columbus, Christopher, 142-43 Commentary, 79-80, 88, 118-19, 120, 127, 136, 141-46, 151, 160, 162-63, 164, 169-70, 172, 175, 176, 181-82, 194-95, 205, 222, 231 Communism, 73-78, 82-89, 142, 144, 168, 224: see also Marxism Americanization of, 76 anti-, 101-6 in mainstream politics, 180-81 Roosevelt and, 73-74 utopianism and, 178 Vietnam and, 172, 173, 174 WW II and, 83-89, 90, 92 Congress for Cultural Freedom, 104 Constitution, U.
The spicier varieties, usually designer ketchups, are zesty on a plastic spoon but obscure the loveliness of a crisp French fry, which the blander, mainstream brands perfectly complement.
This quixotic quest isolated Einstein from the mainstream of physics, which, understandably, was far more excited about delving into the newly emerging framework of quantum mechanics.
We exited at McGuinness Boulevard to find that down below was only the chaos of other thwarted rebels trying to reboot into the mainstream of traffic.
True, there was still enormous popularity for the old-time religious revivalists, and Billy Graham commanded the obedience of millions, but now there were small swift currents against the mainstream.
Something similar already existed in more mainstream Jewish scribal thinking: the figure of personified Wisdom I mentioned earlier.
She had never been in the mainstream of Yedo politics, but the proximity of Hiraga and learning about the shishi from him--and secrets about him and Ori from the shoya--had given her an appetite.
To expect the mainstream to radically reinterpret itself for the sake of transgenderist ideology is the sort of conceit typical of a member of any minority.
While the mainstream press still avoided printing unsubstantiated rumors, the supermarket tabloids were offering cash for shocking stories from Arkansas.
American society, those black offenders who have become more acculturated into mainstream society will begin imitating the behavior and custom of their white offender counterparts.
Bulliet and other mainstream Arabists who had urged a softer, more nuanced view of Islam found themselves harassed into silence.
Indeed, after behaviorism, mainstream theoretical psychology and philosophy have had little to say about the nature of introspection.
Scattered references to the booing incident did appear in other mainstream media, such as the New York Daily News and the New York Times Magazine.
Louisiana industry was gossamer tidbits of apocryphal tales spun into the mainstream of the mega-millions that those Gashouses of refineries made.