{
    "term": "mainstream",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the ideas and opinions that are thought to be normal because they are shared by most people; the people whose ideas and opinions are most accepted",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His radical views place him outside the mainstream of American politics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was never part of the literary mainstream as a writer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He drifted out of the mainstream of society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was in the mainstream of British contemporary music."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These teachers have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This style of drama is not part of the cultural mainstream."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This technology was designed for specialists but is now starting to move into the mainstream."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument", "Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["cultural", "political", "etc."],
                "verb + mainstream": ["enter", "hit", "join"],
                "preposition": [
                    "in the mainstream",
                    "within the mainstream",
                    "into the mainstream"
                ],
                "phrases": ["part of the mainstream"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmeɪnstriːm/",
                "audio": "ma/mainstream/mainstream__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmeɪnstriːm/",
                "audio": "ma/mainstream/mainstream__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}