Other forms: subcultures
A subculture is a group within a society with its own style and values. Youth subcultures, a subculture of collectors, part of the subculture.
It sits inside the larger culture rather than against it, which is what separates it from a counterculture. The word is common in sociology and in writing about music and dress.
1nounsubcultureA group within a society with its own style and values.
“A whole subculture grew up around those records within a year.”
subculture is a group.
Latin
cultūra
Middle French
culture
English
culture
English, today
subculture
Built from
From sub- + culture. culture comes from Middle French culture, from Latin cultūra. From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, to grow, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA