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community center

noun

  1. a building or other place in which members of a community may gather for social, educational, or cultural activities.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of community center1

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

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Example Sentences

The court house is now the Anthology Archive and the firehouse is a Chinese community center.

“Our house became a kind of community center for deported gang members from L.A.,” said Rose-Avila, picking up the story.

And the local LGBT community center she runs, she says, is in danger of losing its lease and will have nowhere else to go.

Just last month, Frazier Glenn Miller opened fire on a Jewish Community Center shouting “Heil Hitler.”

A gunman with longtime white supremacist and anti-Semitic associations opened fire at a Jewish community center.

The collective interests of any modern community center in industrial efficiency.

On one occasion, the library was made a buzzing community center by a series of bombs that were set off in the street.

The term "community center" is here used in a literal sense of being the center of the activities of the community.

As the community center is the nucleus of the community life, let us first consider the village plan.

As a result it is almost always necessary to traverse two sides of a square in order to reach the community center.

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