Other forms: clubhouses
A clubhouse is the building a sports or social club meets in. The golf clubhouse, meet at the clubhouse, a clubhouse bar.
It is where the bar, the changing rooms and the committee live, and in most clubs it costs more to keep up than everything else together. In American sport the clubhouse is the dressing room, and clubhouse atmosphere means the mood inside a team.
1nounclubhouseThe building a sports or social club meets in.
“After the round of golf, we had lunch in the clubhouse.”
clubhouse is a building.
Club plus house, from the nineteenth century, when sporting clubs began putting up their own buildings.
From club + house.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA