yacht club

noun

: a club organized to promote and regulate yachting and boating

Examples of yacht club in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Dear Miss Manners: My husband’s old boss and his wife invited us to join a local yacht club. Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024 My husband’s old boss and his wife invited us to join a local yacht club. Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024 Two private schools are within walking distance on Snell Isle, which is home to the Vinoy Resort & Golf Club as well as a yacht club. Lauren Beale, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 The concept has been pared back in recent years because a continuous waterside greenway was deemed impossible in some areas, including around yacht clubs. Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024 Usually most yacht clubs are two types: high-end – where the club owns the restaurant or smaller clubs with no food or restaurant on premise. Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 The Coast Guard said the incident happened near the Great Lakes Yacht Club in Kenosha Harbor at about 1:40 p.m. Petty Officer Liam Bartram saw the dog fall off the pier near the yacht club. Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2024 The second episode starts in 2006, in Ventura, California, where a frustrated scientist named Judy Mikovits is working as a bartender at a yacht club. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2024 In 1965, the yacht club submitted a proposal for an all-encompassing $1-million, two-story, 10,000-square-foot clubhouse on four acres off Admiralty Way. Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1834, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of yacht club was in 1834

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“Yacht club.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yacht%20club. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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