country club
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈkʌntri klʌb/
:
club campestre
- Do what I tell you, and by tomorrow you'll be chuckling about this in your country club.
- country club membership
- private country club
- country club golf
So think about the landscapers at a Country Club maintaining the golf course.
- So think about the landscapers at a Country Club maintaining the golf course.
- At one point we went to an Epping country, the Epping Country Club, and I'd always wanted to dance.
- You're a member of a really nice Country Club, so your dues are a little higher, pal, right?
- Some of them drove nice cars, wore nice clothes, lived in nice houses, some of them took nice dress, while some of them even played golf at the Country Club.
- The I just bought a house in the Country Club and currently renovating it.
- She's a wishy washy, you know, kind of Country Club conservative.
- He lived in Manhattan for decades, now lives at a Country Club.
- The former president had stolen nuclear secrets at his Country Club.
Examples
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The first job I had was as a dishwasher in a country club restaurant.
Academic text (2016) -
I got this job one time bussing tables at a country club.
Fiction book (1994) -
We're members of the same country club.
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" And they had their wedding reception at the country club," she said.
Fiction book (1991) -
In the summers, you swim for the team at the country club near your house.
Fiction book (1993) -
But they had met at the country club in Leesport.
Fiction book (1990) -
Rachel had a lifeguarding job for the summer, her ongoing gig at the country club pool.
Fiction book (1998) -
And then every Thursday at 4:00, she goes to the country club and plays tennis with Betty Big-Bangs over there.
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The country club offers its members a variety of recreational activities, such as golf and tennis.
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She enjoys dining with friends at the country club every weekend.
Synonyms
15
3.1
A group where people meet to enjoy events and make friends
How Exclusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'country club' is transparently built from 'country' + 'club' and will likely be understood by a B1 learner as a club located in the country or countryside. However, the full cultural sense (a private, often affluent recreational/social club with golf/tennis/dining) involves social connotations that are not fully predictable from the constituents, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Country club may come from the simple idea of a club built in the country, a quiet area outside the city, where wealthy people met to play golf, tennis and eat together. That's why today country club means a 'private' place for members to enjoy sports and social life.