| / English Dictionary |
BEAT GENERATION
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
Synonyms:
beat generation; beatniks; beats
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("beat generation" is a kind of...):
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)
Meronyms (members of "beat generation"):
beat; beatnik (a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
