counterestablishment

noun

An establishment that opposes another establishment.

Scrabble 29

Meanings

nouncounterestablishment (plural counterestablishments)

plural counterestablishments

  1. An establishment that opposes another establishment.
    1 more example

    Founded in 1953 to seed a new conservative generation (and originally called the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists), this pioneer of what would become a sprawling conservative counterestablishment boasted as its first president a young man named William F. Buckley Jr., who would go on to bigger things.

    2007 October 7, Jonathan Rauch, “Crisis on the Right”, in New York Times

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APA

counterestablishment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterestablishment

MLA

“counterestablishment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterestablishment. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counterestablishment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterestablishment.

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