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BOY SCOUTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Boy Scouts" is a kind of...):
front; movement; social movement (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)
Meronyms (members of "Boy Scouts"):
Boy Scouts of America (a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training)
Boy Scout (a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts)
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