country club

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noun

a club, usually in a suburban district, with a clubhouse and grounds, offering various social activities and generally having facilities for tennis, golf, swimming, etc.

Origin of country club

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Words nearby country club

countrify, country, country and western, country and western music, country blues, country club, country code, country cousin, country dance, country fever, country fries

Example sentences from the Web for country club

Some conservatives, who have long viewed the Ohio congressman as a country-club Republican too eager to make deals, are steamed.

Boehner Blasted Over GOP Purge |Howard Kurtz |December 6, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
These tended to be Republicans of the old school: the country-club types, to use a perhaps outdated typology.

The Big Goodbye: Why Some Abandon the Right |Michael Tomasky |May 31, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
They remain at home in Broken Sound, the expensive, gated Boca Raton country-club community where they live.

The Madoff Family Splinters |Allan Dodds Frank |June 27, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
These, and the presence everywhere of savages, rather take away from the first country-club effect.

The Land of Footprints |Stewart Edward White

Yeh see, Si Tompkins has sort of a country-club meetin at his store every week on this night, an I haint never missed one!

Natalie: A Garden Scout |Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Of course he had had love affairs, mostly with the country-club set.

The Silent Bullet |Arthur B. Reeve
The Country-Club set took themselves very seriously—at least as seriously as they took anything.

The Cricket |Marjorie Cooke
A house anywhere else was taboo, unless one went right out into the country, on the country-club side of the town.

I Walked in Arden |Jack Crawford

British Dictionary definitions for country club

country club

noun

a club in the country, having sporting and social facilities

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country club

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