subculture

Word family  noun culture subculture adjective cultural cultured adverb culturally

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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sub·cul·ture /ˈsʌbˌkʌltʃə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  SSYa particular group of people within a society and their behaviour, beliefs, and activities – often used to show disapproval 亚文化群；亚文化〔常含贬义〕 the drug subculture of the inner city 旧城区的吸毒亚文化群

Examples from the Corpus

subculture• In a sense the Salvation Army is a subculture.• We will now review some of the major developments from functionalist theory based on notions of culture and subculture.• the drug subculture in Detroit• These inevitably came to influence our own structures of significance and were made apparent by changes in our own subculture of style.• They formed their own subcultures within the main cultural sphere.• This was reflected in the literary diet on which the radical subculture fed.• And that subculture represented the first consumer market for things such as modems and communications software.• This subculture represented the core of the occupational community.

sub·cul·ture nounChineseSyllable  

group within society a particular Corpus and of a people

subculture
sub‧cul‧ture /ˈsʌbˌkʌltʃə $ -ər/ noun [countable]a particular group of people within a society and their behaviour, beliefs, and activities – often used to show disapproval:
    the drug subculture of the inner city

sub·cul·tureBrE /ˈsʌbkʌltʃə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsʌbkʌltʃər/ 🔊 noun (sometimes disapproving) the behaviour and beliefs of a particular group of people in society that are different from those of most people （某群体特有的）亚文化行为观念，次文化◆the criminal/drug/youth, etc. subculture 犯罪、吸毒、青少年群体等的亚文化