English Explanatory Dictionary

counterculture

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to Western culture.
name
  1. A cultural movement most prominent in the 1960s and 1970s, associated with peace, free love and opposition to commercialism; the hippie movement.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

counterculture countercultures counter-culture counter culture

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English counterculture From counter- + culture.

Derived words

countercultural counterculturish counterculturism counterculturist
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