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A culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture
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counterculture
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Word definitions for counterculture in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The environmental group had its roots in the counterculture of the 1960s. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a member of the counterculture I had tried to get excited by the New Games in which no one loses. ▪ How, in that case, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to western culture
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A counterculture (also written counter-culture ) is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores . A countercultural movement expresses the ethos ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also counter-culture , counter culture , 1968, from counter- + culture (q.v.). Popularized by, and perhaps coined in, the book "The Making of a Counter Culture" by Theodore Roszak. As an adjective by 1972.
Usage examples of counterculture.
American commercial culture co-opted the counterculture of communes and simple living, commodifying dissent, and selling it back to the dissenters.
Point Foundation started its yearly Hackers Conference, and began to take an extensive interest in the strange new possibilities of digital counterculture.
The rebels of the 1960s in the United States saw him as an advocate of the antimaterialistic counterculture, the drug culture, and the search for truth in the mystic religions of the East.
In point of fact, my divorce from Irene had cost me plenty, making a shambles of both my bank account and my credit record, and Vickie's fondness for upper-middle-class counterculture artifacts, solar-powered trash compacters and so on, had depleted her resources as well.
Our American multicultures and countercultures are themselves hyperbolic fractal expansions of Disney's delirious embrace of sincerity and cleanliness and niceness and grotesque sentimentalism and white middle American hyperconformity.