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clubhouse

clubhouse

86 2.3
A building where members of a group meet and spend time together
  • noun
  • /ˈklʌbˌhaʊs/
translation icon : sede
  • - We'll meet back at the clubhouse.
  • clubhouse members
  • clubhouse operations
  • clubhouse director

They they share an actual building, you know, but they're clubhouses.

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Examples

  • All the members of the book club met at the clubhouse to discuss their latest read.

  • A lone man has left his cart, climbing toward the clubhouse with his head down.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Gonna go around back to the clubhouse for a bit.

  • We played in that clubhouse the entire day.

  • Maybe I can get back to the clubhouse and get the hell out of here?

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I used to go up to the employee's clubhouse before I was married.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • So, uh, it's last call at the clubhouse.

  • The big dining room at the far end of the clubhouse is filled with old men.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Join a poetry group that meets in a clubhouse or church basement.

    Academic text (2011)
  • We just popped in to the golf clubhouse of the hotel and this is the women's changing room.

Synonyms

clubroom
vsclubhouse
1 3.1

A room where club members meet for activities

is an entire building rather than a single interior space

How Big

city hall
  • US
34 2.2
town hall
14 1.5
guildhall
  • Archaic
1 9.8
hall
314 1.0
clubhouse
86 2.3

Surface Forms

clubhouse singular
clubhouses plural

Morphology

clubhouse = club + house (transparent) = club + house

The meaning is a straightforward combination of 'club' and 'house' (a building used by a club), so learners can derive it from the parts.

Etymology

The word clubhouse is made from club and house. A club is a group of people with the same interest and house means 'building' or 'home', so a clubhouse is the building where the club meets and spends time together.