beatnik

bitnik

Definition

Definition of beatnik - Reverso French Dictionary

Noun, masc/fem

mouvement culturel

Dated

membre du mouvement culturel américain des années 1950 rejetant les valeurs traditionnelles

Dated

Jack Kerouac était un célèbre beatnik de la Beat Generation.

bohémien

contestataire

hippie

Adjective

attitude libre

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qui adopte un style bohème libre, anticonformiste et nonchalant

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Son look beatnik contraste avec le reste de la classe.

bohème

mouvement américain

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qui se rapporte à la Beat Generation et à ses membres

Dated

Ce roman propose une vision beatnik de la route.

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Origin of beatnik

anglais, beat (battre) + nik (suffixe péjoratif)

Examples of beatnik in a sentence

Les beatniks voyageaient souvent sans argent.
Elle mène une vie beatnik dans une caravane près de la mer.
Son appartement beatnik est rempli de tapis usés et d’affiches psychédéliques.
Son style beatnik fascine les jeunes lecteurs.
La revue propose une esthétique beatnik très marquée.

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English:beatnik, bohemian, ...
German:Beatnik, bohemienhaft, ...
Italian:beatnik, bohémien, ...
Spanish:beatnik, bohemio, ...
Portuguese:beatnik, boémio, ...
Chinese:垮掉的一代, 波西米亚式的, ...
Japanese:ビートニク, ビートニク風の, ...
Arabic:بيتنيك, بوهِيمِيّ, ...
Hebrew:בִּיטְנִיק, בִּיטְנִיקִי, ...
Russian:битник, битниковский, ...
Ukrainian:бітник, бойовий, ...
Catalan:beatnik, bohemi, ...
Danish:en beatnik, beatnik, ...
Dutch:beatnik, boheems, ...
Greek:μπιτνίκ, μποέμ, ...
Khmer:ប៊ីតនិក, បែបបូហេម, ...
Korean:비트족, 비트닉풍의, ...
Polish:beatnik, beatnikowski, ...
Portuguese (BR):beatnik, boêmio anticonformista, ...
Romanian:beatnik, boem, ...
Swedish:beatnik, bohemisk, ...
Thai:บีทนิก, สไตล์บีท, ...
Turkish:bitnik, bohem, ...
Vietnamese:beatnik, phóng khoáng, ...

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Definition of beatnik - Reverso French Dictionary

Noun, masc/fem

Adjective

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