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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

hippi

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ˈi.pi/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hippie/ˈhɪp.i/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O movimento hippie marcou uma geração inteira de jovens."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person, typically of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, who rejected conventional values, advocated for peace, and often adopted a nomadic or communal lifestyle.

    "Many old hippies still advocate for environmental causes and alternative medicine."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Characteristic of or associated with hippies, especially in dress, behavior, or philosophy.

    "She wore a colorful, hippie dress with intricate embroidery."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived in the mid-1960s from the earlier slang term 'hip' or 'hep', meaning being aware or fashionably up-to-date. The suffix '-ie' was added to form a noun describing the members of the counterculture movement that originated in the United States and spread worldwide.

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