Definition of Flower child

1. Noun. Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle.

Exact synonyms: Hippie, Hippy, Hipster
Group relationships: Flower People, Hippies, Hipsters
Generic synonyms: Crusader, Meliorist, Reformer, Reformist, Social Reformer

Definition of Flower child

1. Noun. A hippie involved with the flower power movement. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flower Child

flower-of-an-hour
flower-petal
flower-petals
flower-spray ending
flower-spray organ of Ruffini
flower-sweet
flower/er
flower arrangement
flower basket of Bochdalek
flower bed
flower beds
flower box
flower boxes
flower bud
flower chain
flower child
flower children
flower cluster
flower deluce
flower flies
flower fly
flower garden
flower gardening
flower girl
flower girls
flower head
flower heads
flower people
flower petal
flower petals

Literary usage of Flower child

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The 30 Trials of IX and the Angels by Mark Durant (2004)
"... flower child; The Fires of Seeding Ix was struck toward the end of the call of the thirteenth angel with the vision of an eye opening within a ..."

2. Aspects of Child Life and Education by Granville Stanley Hall (1921)
"The pansy was a willing, quick, bright flower child, the rose her grown-up sister, pretty, always charmingly dressed, but a quiet and sedate spectator. ..."

3. The Northern magazine (1853)
"And here the star-flower's child was born-^a delicate white child, with little bells upon a fragile stalk—with its mother's fragrance, and its father's ..."

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