YOUTH CULTURE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("youth culture" is a kind of...):

subculture (a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs)

coevals; contemporaries; generation (all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age)

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

hip-hop (an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city)

youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)

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