COUNTERCULTURE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

culture (the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "counterculture"):

flower power (a counterculture of young people in the US during the 1960s and 70s)

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