nonmainstream
- noun
- /ˌnɒnˈmeɪnˌstriːm/
:
no convencional
- Key Words: narratives; African American; nonmainstream; American English.
Examples
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Like narration, researchers have also found that young African Americans' spoken use of Nonmainstream American English (NMAE) is related to their early language and literacy achievement.
Academic text (2013) -
Nonmainstream nonmainstream artists often struggle to gain recognition in the competitive music industry.
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The festival celebrates nonmainstream films that challenge traditional storytelling methods.
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Many nonmainstream writers explore themes that are overlooked by the mainstream publishing world.
Synonyms
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7.5
A group of musicians and artists who work outside the mainstream, often in secret
Antonyms
How Mainstream
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonmainstream = mainstream (transparent) = non + main + stream
The productive negating prefix 'non-' is applied to the noun 'mainstream', yielding the straightforward opposite.
Etymology
The word nonmainstream comes from non- 'not' and mainstream 'the main flow' of culture or ideas. So the nonmainstream are the people, works, or ideas that exist outside that main flow.