Usually means: Widely accepted and popularly followed.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word mainstream:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. mainstream, the mainstream: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mainstream: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mainstream: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mainstream: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mainstream: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mainstream, mainstream: Wordnik
  7. mainstream, the mainstream: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mainstream: Wiktionary
  9. mainstream: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mainstream: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mainstream: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mainstream: Dictionary.com
  13. mainstream: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mainstream: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mainstream (Lloyd Cole album), Mainstream (Quiet Sun album), Mainstream (band), Mainstream (disambiguation), Mainstream (film), Mainstream (terminology), Mainstream: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. mainstream: Rhymezone
  17. mainstream: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mainstream: Free Dictionary
  19. mainstream: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. mainstream: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. mainstream: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mainstream: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mainstream: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mainstream: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

(Note: See mainstreaming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc.
noun:  The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air
noun:  (usually with the) That which is common; the norm.
verb:  (transitive) To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream.
verb:  (intransitive) To become mainstream.
verb:  (transitive, education, chiefly US) To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.

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