tennis club
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1.2
- noun
- /ˈtɛnɪs klʌb/
:
club de tenis
- Every Saturday, I meet my friends at the tennis club to play matches together.
- join the tennis club
- tennis club membership
- local tennis club
Examples
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In April, an organizational meeting of workers' sport clubs occurred, and a tennis club was organized by girls who worked in shops and offices.
Academic text (1994) -
An upscale midtown tennis club.
Fiction book (1993) -
When I was a kid, I played at this tennis club.
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Sorry, but my membership to the tennis club just expired.
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I have a tennis club lesson at 1 o'clock.
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By 1921, there were many tennis clubs, and female players were prominently represented in the competitions.
Academic text (1994) -
Buffalo Creek is a very upscale neighborhood with a golf course and private swim and tennis club.
Blog text (16) -
In that wild salt air, the wind off the sea blew our tangled hair back from our faces as we rode our bikes up and down those narrow lanes, to the beach club, to the tennis club, to our friends' houses.
Fiction book (1991) -
But he was very overweight and too florid, and Marcia continually talked in her soft whisper to Laurie, who kept saying, "uh huh, yes, I know, uh huh," but she couldn't wait to get back to her tennis club.
Fiction book (2001) -
He was stunningly handsome, his hair streaked straw-blond, his complexion perpetually sunburned from the many hours he spent each week at his tennis club.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
A group of people who meet for a shared interest or activity
A club where members play sports like tennis, squash or badminton
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'tennis' (the sport) with 'club' (an association or place for activities), yielding an organization or place for playing tennis. This is a productive noun–noun compounding pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name tennis club comes from a simple picture: people meeting to play tennis together, and a club is a group or place where people gather for the same activity. So, a tennis club means 'an organization or place where people meet to play tennis together'.