MAINSTREAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mainstream mean? 

• MAINSTREAM (noun)
  The noun MAINSTREAM has 1 sense:

1. the prevailing current of thought

  Familiarity information: MAINSTREAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAINSTREAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The prevailing current of thought

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

his thinking was in the American mainstream

Hypernyms ("mainstream" is a kind of...):

thought (the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual)

 Context examples 

Also called biomedicine, conventional medicine, mainstream medicine, orthodox medicine, and Western medicine.

(Allopathic medicine, NCI Dictionary)

They are required to be located in medically-underserved rural and urban areas, and within those communities, they serve those with limited access to more mainstream health care.

(Community Health Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called allopathic medicine, conventional medicine, mainstream medicine, orthodox medicine, and Western medicine.

(Biomedicine, NCI Dictionary)

Also called allopathic medicine, biomedicine, conventional medicine, mainstream medicine, and Western medicine.

(Orthodox medicine, NCI Dictionary)

Also called allopathic medicine, biomedicine, mainstream medicine, orthodox medicine, and Western medicine.

(Conventional medicine, NCI Dictionary)

A minority is a group that is outnumbered by persons who do not belong to it, often people with different nationality, religion, culture or lifestyle from that of the mainstream in the society; racial or ethnic groups officially recognized by the U.S. government as minority populations.

(Minority Group, NCI Thesaurus)