Subcult
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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