hippie commune
Shared living experiment
A hippie commune is a collective living arrangement associated with the 1960s and 70s counterculture, where members shared property, labor, and often rejected mainstream values around work, family structure, and materialism.
Communes varied from rural farms to urban households, typically emphasizing peace, free love, and simple living: They spent a summer on a hippie commune in Vermont.
The term now evokes both idealistic experimentation and chaotic impracticality.
- collectiveJointly organized group
- groovySixties slang for cool
- free loveUnstructured romantic and sexual bonds
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
- tie-dyeBound-fabric coloring technique
organic · brown rice · ashram · shared garden · counterculture · flower child · back-to-the-land · off the grid · peace · harmony · incense · meditation · vegetarian · folk music · teepee · VW bus · natural childbirth · barefoot
- communitiesfamily, neighbors, cohousing, village, ecovillage
- communal livingcollective, kibbutz, cohousing, ecovillage, shared housing
- Communeskibbutz, utopian communities, Hutterites, ecovillage, collective living
- alternative lifestylesoff-grid, homesteading, van life, tiny house, ecovillage
- collectivismcollectivism, collective, hivemind, herd mentality, pack mentality
hippie communegated community
Restricted-access residential area
country club · homeowners association · Levittown · corporate headquarters · Wall Street
hippie communeWall Street
American finance hub
corporate headquarters · investment bank · hedge fund · private estate · country estate
hippie communemilitary base
Armed forces facility
army barracks · boot camp · prison · military academy · boarding school
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