A secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades. Classified under: Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects. Synonyms: junior high; junior high school. Hypernyms (junior high school is a kind of...): Gymnasium; lycee; lyceum; middle school; secondary school (a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12)
Popular culture. Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other phenomena within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century.
The quantitative definition of culture has the problem that much  high culture  (e.g., television dramatizations of Jane Austen) is also popular. Pop culture is also defined as the culture that is left over when we have decided what high culture is.However, many works straddle the boundaries, e.g., Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. A third definition equates pop culture with mass culture and ideas.op culture is also defined as the culture that is left over when we have decided what high culture is. However, many works straddle the boundaries, e.g., Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. A third definition equates pop culture with mass culture and ideas.