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Meanings of counterculture in English

Russian
контр-культура
Portuguese
contracultura
Spanish
sociedad alternativa
Catalan
contracultura

Subculture whose values and norms of behavior deviate from those of mainstream society.

      контр-культура
      Synonyms
      Examples for "counter-culture"
      Examples for "counter-culture"
      1
      Surprisingly, for a counter-culture group, hackers have a remarkably well-documented history.
      Wired
      2
      Some 2000 kilometres later, she arrived in Sydney and joined the thriving counter-culture community.
      Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
      3
      The film studios were more puzzled than anyone by the rise of the counter-culture.
      The Irish Times
      4
      Next, a German import that became one of America's most beloved symbols of counter-culture.
      BBC
      5
      Something about the hair and the deliberate counter-culture look said that he came from money.
      The devil's alphabet
      Usage of counterculture in English
      1
      There was, however, one problem: it was their counterculture lefthander David Wells.
      The Yankee Years
      2
      He accused supporters of the counterculture of ethnocentric thinking and amoral relativism.
      Drawing Down the Moon
      3
      That's where she'd met Ryan, during his own personal undergraduate counterculture insurrection.
      Break No Bones
      4
      In the 1960s Ali had at least a counterculture in his corner.
      The Guardian
      5
      And yet weirdly it came from right inside the counterculture's walls.
      Radio NZ
      6
      Ignored by mainstream media, novels sometimes feel like the new counterculture.
      The Guardian
      7
      CULTURE:Is Apple the offspring of the counterculture or just another corporation?
      The Irish Times
      8
      In this, as in general appearance, hackerdom semi-consciously maintains 'counterculture' values.
      The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
      9
      Leibovitz started out at the cutting edge of counterculture in the late 60s.
      The Guardian
      10
      We're a far cry from the counterculture hippies of the sixties.
      Death du Jour
      11
      Back in the United States, Hendrix became an icon of the counterculture movement.
      Reuters
      12
      The festivals of yore were not the counterculture utopia they proposed to be.
      The Irish Times
      13
      The counterculture possessed a whole book of phrases which bordered on meaning nothing.
      Valis
      14
      Davis rose to prominence as a counterculture activist in the 1960s.
      Ebony
      15
      Both Tomi Ungerer and Robert Crumb were heroes of the counterculture.
      The Irish Times
      16
      Yet from this inauspicious housing stock came an intriguing 30-year chapter in British counterculture.
      The Guardian
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      Portuguese
      contracultura
      Counterculture through the time