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scouthouse en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Received-Pronunciation) audio
• /ˈskaʊthaʊs/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From scout + house.

Meanings

1. (US, qualifier:scouting) A building where members of the Scout Movement hold their meetings.
   • A new rectory, a youth center and a scouthouse were constructed […] 1980, Frank A. Driskill, Noel Grisham, Historic Churches of Texas: The Land and the People, Burnet, Tex.: Eakin Press, →ISBN, page 211:
   • 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. 1982, Staffrider, volume 5, Braamfontein, Johannesburg: Ravan Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83, column 1:
   • 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. 1994 April 12, Phil Katz, “Tempo”, in rec.folk-dancing (Usenet), message-ID <2od0eh$ol6@news.u.washington.edu>:
   • 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. 1935 October, “Explorers and Scouts: Scouting in the Oahu Stake”, in Heber J[eddy] Grant, 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, page 634, column 1:

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Translations (2)

pl harcówka (building where members of the Scout Movement hold their meetings) · sh izviđački dom (building where members of the Scout Movement hold their meetings)