as in cultures
a group that has beliefs and behaviors that are different from the main groups within a culture or society
a subculture of local painters a subculture of poverty and crime
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Recent Examples of subcultures
As much as anything else, these marketplaces are full-fledged subcultures.
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 6 May 2026
The principal remit of the CCCS was interrogation of the mass media and exploration of popular culture and subcultures.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026
There’s an image of New York City, calcified in film, memoir, and newsprint, of a city built on a foundation of scruffy subcultures, especially those communities grounded in the city’s hundreds of distinct diasporas.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
The series’ brief plunges into American subcultures are told without hand-holding or rigid structure; the point of the story often doesn’t reveal itself until the end — or perhaps days later.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
Just as Season 1 was a sociological cross section of Asian-American Los Angeles and its many subcultures, Season 2 gets specific with another corner of Southern California.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
The Bay Area is home to extensive subcultures of people, many who have worked in tech, who have spent years debating, often online, whether the advancement of AI could threaten humanity.
—St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2026
For much of the 20th century in the United States, tattoos were associated with rebellion and criminality — linked to prisoners, gangs and subcultures, as well as servicemen like sailors and soldiers.
—Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
Arabic carries ancient histories encompassing a myriad of subcultures and sustainable systems for the world.
—Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 6 May 2026
The principal remit of the CCCS was interrogation of the mass media and exploration of popular culture and subcultures.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026
There’s an image of New York City, calcified in film, memoir, and newsprint, of a city built on a foundation of scruffy subcultures, especially those communities grounded in the city’s hundreds of distinct diasporas.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
The series’ brief plunges into American subcultures are told without hand-holding or rigid structure; the point of the story often doesn’t reveal itself until the end — or perhaps days later.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
Just as Season 1 was a sociological cross section of Asian-American Los Angeles and its many subcultures, Season 2 gets specific with another corner of Southern California.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
The Bay Area is home to extensive subcultures of people, many who have worked in tech, who have spent years debating, often online, whether the advancement of AI could threaten humanity.
—St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2026
For much of the 20th century in the United States, tattoos were associated with rebellion and criminality — linked to prisoners, gangs and subcultures, as well as servicemen like sailors and soldiers.
—Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
Arabic carries ancient histories encompassing a myriad of subcultures and sustainable systems for the world.
—Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcultures
Noun
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The study also found that three-dimensional biological neural networks offer richer connectivity and greater computational potential than traditional flat two-dimensional cultures.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
8 May 2026
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Long before drop-top Corvettes breezed through town, Albuquerque was a bastion of Spanish colonial and Native America cultures, a heritage that endures at 18th-century San Felipe de Neri Church in Old Town and the National Hispanic Cultural Center.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
8 May 2026
Noun
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In European and American societies of the early and mid-19th century, research shows that infant mortality rates were 30-60 times greater than today.—
Laura Ungar,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2026
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Physical spaces have always embodied what societies care about — from those first stone monuments that hunter-gatherers built to demonstrate loyalty to each other and to higher powers.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
1 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Subcultures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcultures. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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