microculture

noun

mi·cro·cul·ture ˈmī-krō-ˌkəl-chər

: a microscopic culture of cells or organisms

: the culture of a small group of human beings with limited perspective

microcultural

ˌmī-krō-ˈkəlch-rəl

-ˈkəl-chə-

adjective

Examples of microculture in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web One of the best ways to guard against this is to build a microculture with like-minded people who are interested in positive interactions. —

Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023 Rebrands are essentially an opportunity to pivot from one microculture into another. —

Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022 Many of the restaurants featured on the show have their own microculture. —

Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2021 This is not to say that teams that have a microculture are insular. —

Kartik Mandaville, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021 There is such a strange microculture to footballers’ fashion and style and the design that goes around it. —

Alicia Lutes, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2021 This year, monoculture floundered, but microculture flourished. —

Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Dec. 2020

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