Subcult

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cult making up part of a larger cult.

    "There was a kind of ghostly teenage DNA at work in the Sprawl, something that carried the coded precepts of various short-lived subcults and replicated them at odd intervals."

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"There was a kind of ghostly teenage DNA at work in the Sprawl, something that carried the coded precepts of various short-lived subcults and replicated them at odd intervals."

Etymology

From sub- + cult.

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