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community center
noun
- a building or other place in which members of a community may gather for social, educational, or cultural activities.
Word History and Origins
Origin of community center1
Example Sentences
Even slowed by age, Rosa Wilson made it to church and to the community center several times a week, though the coronavirus pandemic had prevented her from attending in the past 10 months.
It fit snugly that when Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith, a favorite of his teachers back at Amite High, won the hallowed trophy Tuesday night, 100 or so people gathered in the community center, his parents right up front.
Back in 2012, the folks who run the beautifully restored Old Naval Hospital, a community center in Southeast Washington, paired up with the Library of Congress to plan a new literary program.
The LGBTQ Community in Des Moines Des Moines has a thriving and diverse LGBTQ community which it supports with a number of resources and community centers.
The other challenge is that museums cannot become community centers.
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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