mainstreamadjective
uk/ˈmeɪn.striːm/us/ˈmeɪn.striːm/C2 considered normal, and having or using ideas, beliefs, etc. that are accepted by most people:
This is the director's first mainstream Hollywood film.
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- World Music is now well established and popular with mass audiences and mainstream companies.
- He is not known within mainstream literary circles.
- They cater for mainstream musical tastes.
- She is excluded from mainstream life.
- Mainstream journals did not cover the story.
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General
- abstract
- abstraction
- abstractly
- across-the-board
- all-purpose
- board
- generalist
- generally
- helicopter view
- impressionistic
- in all idiom
- large
- primarily
- principle
- sense
- simply
- substantially
- the big/bigger picture idiom
- thing
- whole
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mainstreamnoun
uk/ˈmeɪn.striːm/us/ˈmeɪn.striːm/the mainstream
the way of life or set of beliefs accepted by most people:
The new law should allow more disabled people to enter the mainstream of American life.
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Custom, tradition & conformity
- apple pie
- as American as apple pie idiom 1
- backward-looking
- backwards
- be (like) sheep idiom
- blend into the scenery idiom
- cue
- fashion
- folk
- folk memory
- folklore
- follow the crowd idiom
- non-traditional
- nonconformist
- norm
- orthodoxy
- patrimony
- reactionary
- unorthodox
- zeitgeist
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mainstreamverb [ T ]
uk/ˈmeɪn.striːm/us/ˈmeɪn.striːm/USto teach children with physical or mental problems in the same class as children without problems
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Teaching in general
- brief
- CAL
- CLIL
- clue
- clue sb in
- drum
- homeschool
- hothousing
- instruction
- instructional
- popularize
- special educational needs
- teach
- teach sb a lesson idiom
- that'll teach sb idiom
- tutelage
- upskill
- upskilling
- wean
- wean sb on sth
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