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SERVICE CLUB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does service club mean? 

SERVICE CLUB (noun)
  The noun SERVICE CLUB has 2 senses:

1. a club of professional or business people organized for their coordination and active in public servicesplay

2. a recreational center for servicemenplay

  Familiarity information: SERVICE CLUB used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SERVICE CLUB (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A club of professional or business people organized for their coordination and active in public services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("service club" is a kind of...):

club; gild; guild; lodge; order; social club; society (a formal association of people with similar interests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "service club"):

International Association of Lions clubs; Lions Club (club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare)

Rotary Club; Rotary International (a group of businessmen in a town organized as a service club and to promote world peace)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A recreational center for servicemen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("service club" is a kind of...):

center; centre (a building dedicated to a particular activity)


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