scouthouse
English
WOTD – 1 August 2019
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈskaʊthaʊs/
- Hyphenation: scout‧house
Noun
scouthouse (plural scouthouses)
- (Scouting, US) A building where members of the Scout Movement hold their meetings.
- 1935 October, “Explorers and Scouts: Scouting in the Oahu Stake”, in Heber J[eddy] Grant and John A[ndreas] Widtsoe, editors, The Improvement Era, volume 38, number 10, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, OCLC 1752702, page 634, column 1:
- In the summer of 1920 a second troop was started, and opened with a Scouthouse at Laie, windward Oahu, for the children of those missionaries living together in this happy settlement which radiates the true spirit of hospitality and kindness.
- 1980, Frank A. Driskill; Noel Grisham, Historic Churches of Texas: The Land and the People, Burnet, Tex.: Eakin Press, →ISBN, page 211:
- A new rectory, a youth center and a scouthouse were constructed […]
- 1982, Staffrider, volume 5, Braamfontein, Johannesburg: Ravan Press, ISSN 0258-7211, OCLC 475968887, page 83, column 1:
- Once, they thought they saw a light burning in a place which should have been dark. But it was only the reflection of the streetlamps shining on the scouthouse windows, and they did not even stop to investigate.
- 1994 April 12, Phil Katz, “Tempo”, in rec.folk-dancing, Usenet, message-ID <2od0eh$ol6@news.u.washington.edu>:
- I've only been an out of town visitor at the Mon night scouthouse dances a few times, but I've never found it uninviting.
-
Translations
building where members of the Scout Movement hold their meetings
This article is issued from
Wiktionary.
The text is licensed under Creative
Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.