different between mainstream vs arcade

English

Etymology

main +? stream

Pronunciation

Adjective

mainstream (comparative more mainstream, superlative most mainstream)

1. Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of a population or market.

Synonyms

• (used or accepted broadly): common, usual, widespread, conventional

Derived terms

• lamestream (disapprovingly)
• fakestream

Antonyms

• fringe

Translations

Noun

mainstream (plural 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.

Translations

Verb

mainstream (third-person singular simple present mainstreams, present participle mainstreaming, simple past and past participle mainstreamed)

1. (transitive) To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream.
   • 2011, Jeff Change, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (page 420)

     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.
3. (transitive, education) To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.

Derived terms

• mainstreamer
• mainstreamism
• mainstreamist
• mainstreaming

Spanish

Noun

mainstream m (plural mainstreams)

1. mainstream

English

Etymology

French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• Hyphenation: ar?cade
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

arcade (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) A row of arches.
2. (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. (video games) An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Afrikaans: arcade
• ? Czech: arkádové

Translations

Verb

arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)

1. (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.

   • 1873, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Death Shot, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 25, p. 224,^[1]

     its trottoirs brick-paved, and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage— conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China,”—these in places completely arcading the street—

Anagrams

• adarce, araced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arcade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?ka?.d?/
• Hyphenation: ar?ca?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)

1. (architecture) arcade (array of arches)

Derived terms

• arcadehal

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: arkade

French

Etymology

Italian arcata, equivalent to arc +? -ade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.kad/

Noun

arcade f (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) arcade
2. (anatomy) arch, ridge
3. (gaming) arcade

Derived terms

• arcade sourcilière

Descendants

Further reading

• “arcade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).