Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A club of gymnasts or tumblers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An association for the practice of gymnastics according to the system of the turners. See turner, 4.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a club of tumblers or gymnasts

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German : turnen, to do gymnastics; see turner + Verein, club (from obsolete vereine, back-formation from Middle High German vereinen, to unite : ver-, intensive pref. from Old High German far-; see per in Indo-European roots + einen, to make one, from ein, one, from Old High German; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots).]

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German, from turnen to exercise + Verein a union.

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