hipsters

Questions about hipsters

What does hipsters mean?

hipsters means "a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music".

How many syllables are in hipsters?

hipsters has 2 syllables: hip-sters. The stress falls on "hip". In IPA it is /ˈhɪpstɚz/.

What is another word for hipsters?

Close synonyms include flower people, hippies. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hipsters a common word?

hipsters is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hipsters come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.