Get to know Counterculture better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like culture.
Counterculture in a sentence
Counterculture meaning
Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to Western culture.
Synonyms of Counterculture
Using Counterculture
- The main meaning on this page is: Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to Western culture.
- Useful related words include: culture.
- In the example corpus, counterculture often appears in combinations such as: the counterculture, counterculture movement, hippie counterculture.
Context around Counterculture
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Counterculture
- In this selection, "counterculture" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 1960s, popular, hollywood, movement, ideas and alternative stand out and add context to how "counterculture" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include center 1960s counterculture and the and counterculture the books. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "counterculture" sits close to words such as alves, amerindian and andreescu, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with counterculture
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Although he lived in Los Angeles, Wastemoreland loved the counterculture scene in San Francisco. (14 words)
An interesting facet is how hip hop plays a role in Hong Kong’s counterculture. (15 words)
Your counterculture went mainstream and you cashed in. Now the money is gone, and so are the people. (18 words)
In 1958, the term “beatnik” was coined by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen to refer to members of the pre-hippie counterculture; the term was inspired by the “Beat Generation” and by the Soviet launch of its second Sputnik spacecraft. (41 words)
As a result of "Old Hollywood" intervening against the invasion of the counterculture, Tate not only stayed alive in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood but she never even knew she was the Manson Family's original target. (38 words)
Jeremy Strong leaves behind any traces of his most famous role, rich-boy Kendall Roy from by leaning into the facial hair and laid back hippie inflections of Jerry Rubin, an anti-war and counterculture activist. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Counterculture The books were written at the height of the late 1960s, and are infused with the popular counterculture ideas of that time.
An interesting facet is how hip hop plays a role in Hong Kong’s counterculture.
Greg Laurie, played by Joel Courtney of Netflix’s “Kissing Booth” franchise, was a Newport Beach teenager who moved from the counterculture into the church, before launching his own Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside.
In 1970, Gaddie opened Stone Balloon Waterbeds, which helped establish Salt Lake City’s 9th and 9th neighborhood as a center for Utah’s counterculture movement.
Its dilapidated and vulnerable condition is glaringly evident, as once proud and capable units are mired down in the chaos and discord of the counterculture.
Schneider, whose father, Abe Schneider (John Doman), ran Columbia Pictures, was Hollywood counterculture: alternative, independent and, most important, successful.
She encouraged Anna Thomas, a college student from California, to write The Vegetarian Epicure, a hit with counterculture and mainstream cooks and eaters alike.
Your counterculture went mainstream and you cashed in. Now the money is gone, and so are the people.
It’s interesting to me, I think especially with cyberpunk and counterculture, there’s kind of a philosophical worry of society backsliding into a corporate dystopia, exacerbated by technology.
Jeremy Strong leaves behind any traces of his most famous role, rich-boy Kendall Roy from by leaning into the facial hair and laid back hippie inflections of Jerry Rubin, an anti-war and counterculture activist.
The author of iconic 1960s counterculture songs including “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” last released an album of original music in 2012 with “Tempest”.
Their writing and experiences became the blueprint of the American counterculture: sex, drugs, rapturous music, mad impulses, and defiance of authority.
This was in a profile of Adbusters magazine founder Kalle Lasn, one of the premier counterculture figures of that era.
A book entitled “The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde” which was edited by David W. Bernstein, contains a treasure trove of interviews and detailed information.
Although he lived in Los Angeles, Wastemoreland loved the counterculture scene in San Francisco.
As a result of "Old Hollywood" intervening against the invasion of the counterculture, Tate not only stayed alive in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood but she never even knew she was the Manson Family's original target.
But Apple, one of the world’s largest corporations — whose founder Steve Jobs considered himself the heir to the Sixties counterculture — speaks with a special heft.
Cannabis was once so dangerously cool, the youth’s drug of choice, embedded in the Summer of Love, the counterculture movement and college dorm rooms across America.
Dragonwagon Regional namesake Crescent Dragonwagon is up front about her name: She changed it from Ellen Zolotow when she was a 16-year-old counterculture bride.
In 1958, the term “beatnik” was coined by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen to refer to members of the pre-hippie counterculture; the term was inspired by the “Beat Generation” and by the Soviet launch of its second Sputnik spacecraft.
Common combinations with counterculture
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: