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YMCA

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YMCA

  1. Initialism ofYoung Men's Christian Association.

Noun

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YMCA (pluralYMCAs)

  1. Ahostel or otherfacility operated by the Young Men's Christian Association.
    Synonym:(informal)Y
    • 2008 August 24, Tara Dooley, “It's been fun to stay at the Y”, inChron[1]:
      In Houston, theYMCA downtown has offered dormitorylike rooms since 1908. The current building was built in 1941. Over the years it drew such fledgling business leaders as Gerald Hines and Fayez Sarofim.
    • 2021, Andrew A. Erish, “1875–1904”, inVitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio,University Press of Kentucky,→ISBN, page19:
      The title of Smith’s first magic film is to the point:The Vanishing Lady (1898). Blackton operated the camera while Smith hocused and pocused one of their wives away. Presumably there were no trap doors through which a woman could disappear in the stages of theYMCAs and churches where Smith entertained, but thanks to moving pictures he was able to add this most basic of illusions to his repertoire.
  2. (preceded by definite article) A particulardance in which the arms and body are used toimitate the letters Y, M, C, and A, insuccession, danced to theVillage People songY.M.C.A.

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Young Men's Christian Association

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Slovak

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Etymology

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Derived fromEnglishYMCA.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /imka/,[ˈimka]
  • Rhymes:-imka
  • Hyphenation:YM‧CA

Proper noun

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YMCA n

  1. YMCA

Further reading

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  • YMCA”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2026
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