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YOUTH CULTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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