Counterculture Definition

kountər-kŭlchər
counter-culture
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.
Webster's New World

Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to western culture.

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Noun

Singular:
counterculture
Plural:
countercultures

Origin of Counterculture

  • From counter- +‎ culture.

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Counterculture Sentence Examples

  • They overturn our thinking and challenge us to adopt the way of life of a radical counterculture.

  • It was the decade of Woodstock, counterculture and the draft.

  • They were subjected to unprecedented press scrutiny which included criticism of their later role as symbols of 1960s youth counterculture.

  • With Passport to Magonia Vallee moved into the realm of ' sixties counterculture ', in Clark's view.

  • The Bohemian way of life is traditionally linked with free thinking counterculture and is influenced by the gypsy lifestyle.

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