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counterculture

The definition of counterculture is a way of life, a set of attitudes or a group of people whose ideas and values are different than the mainstream accepted beliefs.

(noun)

The hippie ideas, beliefs and values of the 1970's were an example of thecounterculture.

See counterculture in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a culture, as that of many young people of the 1960s and 1970s, manifested by a lifestyle that is opposed to the prevailing culture

Related Forms:

countercultural adjective
counterculturist noun or counterculturalist

See counterculture in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A culture, especially of young people, with values or lifestyles in opposition to those of the established culture.

Related Forms:

counˌter·culˈtur·al adjective

counˈter·culˌtur·ist noun

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