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countercultures

countercultures is the plural 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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Questions about countercultures

What is countercultures the plural of?
Countercultures is the plural of counterculture.

Words near countercultures in the dictionary

  1. counterculturalisms
  2. counterculturalist
  3. counterculturalists
  4. counterculturally
  5. counterculture
  6. countercultures
  7. counterculturish
  8. counterculturism
  9. counterculturist
  10. counterculturists
  11. countercurrent

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