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／亚文化 (zh) (yàwénhuà), 亚文化 (zh) (yàwénhuà)

• Dutch: subcultuur (nl) f
• Finnish: alakulttuuri (fi), osakulttuuri
• French: sous-culture (fr) f
• German: Subkultur (de) f
• Greek: υποπολιτισμός (el) m (ypopolitismós)
• Irish: fochultúr m
• Italian: subcultura f
• Japanese: サブカルチャー (sabukaruchā)
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• Latvian: subkultūra f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: subkultur m, delkultur m

  Nynorsk: subkultur m, delkultur m

• Polish: subkultura (pl) f
• Portuguese: subcultura f
• Russian: субкульту́ра (ru) f (subkulʹtúra)
• Spanish: subcultura (es) f
• Swedish: subkultur (sv) c

Verb

1. (biology) To transfer (microorganisms) to a fresh growth medium in order to start a new culture

See also

• subculture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Noun

subculture f

1. plural of subcultura