subculture

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ culture

Noun

subculture (plural subcultures)

1. A portion of a culture distinguished by its customs or other features.

   The goth subculture has its own mode of dress, and it has a characteristic musical style.

   • 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 7.

     Like those activities, bodybuilding is an obsession, a living (for a few), and a way of life for the people involved in it—a subculture, in a word, with its own values, aesthetics and vocabulary.

2. (biology) A culture made by transferring microorganisms from a previous culture to a fresh growth medium

Translations

portion of a culture distinguished by its customs or other features

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亞文化 (cmn), 亚文化 (cmn) (yàwénhuà)

• Dutch: subcultuur (nl) f
• French: sous-culture (fr) f
• German: Subkultur (de) f
• Greek: υποπολιτισμός (el) (ypopolitismós) m 

• Irish: fochultúr (ga) m
• Italian: subcultura (it) f
• Japanese: サブカルチャー (ja) (sabukaruchā)
• Russian: субкультура (ru) (subkulʹtúra) f 
• Spanish: subcultura (es) f

Verb

subculture (third-person singular simple present subcultures, present participle subculturing, simple past and past participle subcultured)

1. (biology) To transfer (microorganisms) to a fresh growth medium in order to start a new culture
   • 1990, Heidi F. Kaeppler et al., Silicon carbide fiber-mediated DNA delivery into plant cells^[1], volume 9:

     Cultures were subcultured by 20-fold dilution into fresh MS2D medium approximately every 7 d.

See also

• Subculture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Noun

subculture f

1. Plural form of subcultura