nnoun.groupa United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)Synset:beat generation beats
Hypernyms:youth subculture
Inherited Hypernyms:beat generationyouth subcultureyouth culturecoevalspeoplegroupabstractionentity
Inherited Hypernyms:beat generationyouth subcultureyouth culturesubculturesocial groupgroupabstractionentity
Member Meronyms:beat beatnik
nnoun.persona member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behaviorSynset:beat beatnik
Member Holonyms:beat generation beatniks beats
Hypernyms:nonconformist recusant
Inherited Hypernyms:beatniknonconformistdissenterpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:beatniknonconformistdissenterpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity