mainstream

adjective more mainstream · most mainstream

1. Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc. They often carry stories you won't find in the mainstream media.

   Similar: common, usual, widespread, conventional

Opposite: fringe, nonmainstream, alternative

noun mainstreams

1. The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air
2. usually, with the That which is common; the norm. ideas outside of the mainstream

verb mainstreams · mainstreaming · mainstreamed

1. transitive To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream. Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream.
2. intransitive To become mainstream. In a nonchurch context, we can look more explicitly at formerly New Age practices to see if and how they have mainstreamed.
3. US, transitive To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students. Despite these beliefs, the decision to send my son to a regular school was not made easily. I didn't know of any child as disabled as he who had been mainstreamed.