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COUNTERCULTURE
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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)