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subcult

noun

Etymology

From sub- + cult.

  1. derived from cultus
  2. derived from culte
  3. prefixed as subcult — “sub + cult”

Definitions

  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.
    • The cult of the footage is rife with subcults, claiming every possible influence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for subcult. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA