country club
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of country club
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
How would you react if your spouse suddenly wanted to join a country club?
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
BBC Mundo's Norberto Paredes reports from inside the country club.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
His two daughters attend private schools, while he and his wife, Vivian, are habitués of the local country club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Spaeny and Melton were cast as Ashley and Austin, a Gen-Z couple working at a Montecito country club, dreaming and scheming toward upward mobility, a good 18 months before filming began in early 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
A man in the country club band stepped up to the mike and started shaking those seedpod rattles that mean South American music.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
