turnvereinn.
/ˈtəːnvərʌɪn/ In the United States, a gymnastic society, orig. for German immigrants, on the model of those instituted by Jahn (see turner n.1 8). Also attrib.
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1852 San Francisco Herald 1 Nov. 2/2 The Turnverein Society held another of their fetes yesterday.
1949 Minnesota Hist. Mar. 26 The Cincinnati Turnverein built the first Turner Hall in the United States in 1850.
1959 R. Condon Manchurian Candidate (1960) xxvii. 267 Petitions and documentations were submitted to the Resolutions Committee by farm lobbies, labour unions,..and national manufacturers' Turnvereins.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 202/1 Turnvereins continue to foster citizenship and cultural programs together with health and physical-education activities, particularly gymnastics.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1852- optical centre
- optical character reader
- optical character recognition
- optical comparator
- optical dating
- optical density
- optical disc
- optical discs
- optical disk
- optical disks
- optical double
- optical drive
- optical fibre
- optical flat
- optical glass
- optical illusion
- optical illusions
- optical indicatrix
- optical isomer
- optical isomerism
- optical lattice
- optical length
- optical microscope
- optical model
- optical molasses