beats

Speech parts

1. beats - Noun

2. Beats - Proper noun

Meaning

a 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)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

beat generation beatniks tucker music better pulsation beat rhythm pulse exceed meter conquer knock surpass pounding
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Antonyms

aids still writing explanation exhibition prose
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Hypernyms

youth subculture

Phrases with the word

beats me beats it beats his wife word-with-four-beats

Anagrams

baste beast sebat tabes Bates esbat estab

Examples

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. Stella Adler

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. Georges Rouault

Good luck beats early rising. Irish Proverb

Rain beats on a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots. Ghana Proverb

Soft water on hard rock, beats so much that it perforates it. Portuguese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Beatrice Lillie Beatrice Webb Beatrix beats his wife beats it beats me