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counter culture

counter culture is the alternative spelling of counterculture.

Meaning of counterculture

Noun

counterculture (countable and uncountable, plural countercultures)

  1. Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to Western culture.
    • I suspect that just about everything we still consider valuable and interesting from the Victorian decades will turn out to have belonged to the Victorian counterculture.1985, Morse Peckham, Romanticism and Ideology

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Forms of counter culture

pluralcounter cultures

Questions about counter culture

What is counter culture the alternative spelling of?
Counter culture is the alternative spelling of counterculture.

Words near counter culture in the dictionary

  1. counter battens
  2. counter beam
  3. counter check
  4. counter checks
  5. counter clockwise
  6. counter culture
  7. counter cultures
  8. counter curve
  9. counter intelligence
  10. counter melodies
  11. counter melody

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