Synonyms for subculture
ˈsʌbˌkʌl tʃər; sʌbˈkʌl tʃərsub·cul·ture

Princeton's WordNet

1. subculturenoun

   a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs

Matched Categories

1. • Social Group

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How to use subculture in a sentence?

1. Sergey Mikheyev:

   This person was under the strong influence of Western subculture, western subculture builds its matrix on the cult of violence. The one who has a weapon in his hands is right. This is a purely American approach to the matter.

2. Channing Tatum:

   The first one, we just wanted to make a weird movie about a weird subculture that we hadn't seen on film and that was it, this is getting to hang out with the buddies again and ... hopefully try to push the conversation.

3. Shiraz Maher:

   There was this whole subculture that these guys were buying into: a macho world of clandestine behavior beyond social norms, a lot of the appeal to these people was based on masculinity and bravado rather than something ideological or religious.

4. Oleg Soroka:

   I think we should decide this in a civilized manner... It's a subculture, and if it exists, it's wrong to ban it.

5. Anthony Bourdain:

   I was sharing a house in Provincetown one summer with a bunch of friends from high school. I was not contributing to the rent, and everybody I was living with was working in seasonal jobs at restaurants either as cooks or floor staff, one night they just said, we need a dishwasher and it’s going to be you, since you are not contributing to the rent. SoI got started as a dishwasher and fell in love with the whole business and the whole subculture.