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Definition: Subculture |
SubcultureNoun1. A social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | To seed a microbial culture into fresh medium. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A culture derived from another culture or the aseptic division and transfer of a culture or a portion of that culture(inoculum)to fresh nutrient medium. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A subculture is a set of people with distinct behavior and beliefs within a larger culture.
A culture often contains numerous subcultures. Subcultures incorporate large parts of their mother cultures, but in specific instances they may differ radically. Some subcultures achieve such a status that they acquire a name of their own.
Examples include:
See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Subculture."
Crosswords: Subculture |
| English words defined with "subculture": beat generation, beatniks, beats, bikers, bootboys ♦ flower people ♦ hippies, hipsters ♦ mods ♦ psychedelia, punk, punk rocker, punks ♦ Rastafari, Rastas, rockers ♦ skinheads, suburbia ♦ teddy boys ♦ youth culture. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "subculture": cell line, cyberpunk ♦ hackish. (references) |
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Lyrics | Is this our youth subculture (Too Beautiful; performing artist: Heart) | |
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Health | These factors include characteristics of the adolescent (for example, favorable attitudes toward drug use), the family (poor discipline, family conflict, parental drug abuse), peers (positive attitudes toward drug use), school (dropout, poor performance), and neighborhood (criminal subculture). (references) | |
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| "Subculture" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.67% of the time. "Subculture" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.67% | 84 | 36,109 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 86 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "subculture": youth subculture. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "subculture"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 亚文化群. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | subkultur (sub-culture), subkultivere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | subcultuur (counterculture, sub-culture), overenting. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرهنگ فرعی , کشت دوم میکروب , خرده فرهنگ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rinnakkaisviljelmä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | repiquage (surprint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Subkultur (sub-culture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεταφύτευση (transplantation), μεταφορά (carriage, conveyance, freightage, metaphor, portage, traction, traffic, transfer, transference, transport, transportation, truckage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | subcoltura, sottocoltura, trapianto (graft, transplant, transplantation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | サフラン" (knapsack), minor characters, sabot, sabotage, Sabrina pants, sand, sub, sub notebook, sub promenade, sub reader, sub sack, subbank, subdomain, sub-goal, sub-graph, subhead, subject, subleader, sublet, subliminal ad, submanager, submarine, submarine pitcher, sub-menu, subnet, subnetting, sub-network, sub-pattern, sub-process, subroutine, sub-set, substance, substitute, sub-system, subteen, subtitle, subtrack, subway, supplement, supplier, supply, to be idle, to be truant, to sabotage by slowness, zephyr lily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | サブカルチャー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubculturesay trasplantação, repicagem (sharpening), pesca (catch, fishery, haul). (various references) субкультура. (various references) subcultura (sub-culture), repicado. (various references) subkultur, ympning (graft, inoculation). (various references) alt kültür. (various references) субкультура. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "subculture": subcultured, subcultures. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "subculture" (pronounced su"bku'lkher) |
| 5 | -k u' l kh er | agriculture, Aquaculture, counterculture, horticulture. |
| 3 | -l kh er | Belcher, culture, vulture, Welcher. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-l-r-s-t-u-u-u" | |
-1 letter: tubulures. | |
-2 letters: cultures, tubulure. | |
-3 letters: becrust, becurst, bluster, butlers, cluster, culture, cutlers, relucts, subcult, subrule, subtler, tubules. | |
-4 letters: bluest, bluets, blurts, brutes, burets, buster, bustle, butler, butles, cruets, cruset, cubers, culets, cultus, curets, curule, cutler, eructs, lucres, luster, lustre, rebuts, rectus, recuts, reluct, result, rubles, rustle, sublet, subtle, sutler, suture, truces, tubers, tubule, ulcers. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-l-r-s-t-u-u-u" | |
+1 letter: subcultured, subcultures, tuberculous. | |
+5 letters: antituberculous. | |
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