different between mainstream vs quotidian

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

From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cott?di?nus, qu?t?di?nus (“happening every day”), from adverb cott?di?, qu?t?di? (“every day, daily”), from an unattested adjective derived from quot (“how many”) + locative form of di?s (“day”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kw??t?d??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kw??t?d??n/

Adjective

quotidian (comparative more quotidian, superlative most quotidian)

1. (medicine) Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc). [from 14th c.]
2. Happening every day; daily. [from 15th c.]
3. Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly; commonplace, ordinary, mundane. [from 15th c.]

Translations

Noun

quotidian (plural quotidians)

1. (medicine, now rare, historical) A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria. [from 14th c.]
2. (Anglicanism, historical) A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy. [from 16th c.]
3. (usually with definite article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class. [from 20th c.]

Translations

Interlingua

Adjective

quotidian (comparative plus quotidian, superlative le plus quotidian)

1. daily

Derived terms

• quotidianmente