SUBCULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subculture mean? 

• SUBCULTURE (noun)
  The noun SUBCULTURE has 1 sense:

1. a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs

  Familiarity information: SUBCULTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBCULTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("subculture" is a kind of...):

social group (people sharing some social relation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "subculture"):

suburbia (suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture)

youth culture (young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture)

psychedelia (the subculture of users of psychedelic drugs)

Holonyms ("subculture" is a part of...):

civilisation; civilization; culture (a particular society at a particular time and place)