student union

noun

: a building on a college campus that is devoted to student activities and that usually contains lounges, auditoriums, offices, and game rooms

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Alabama restricted Black student unions and programming for international students. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024 Maroon and gold balloons, streamers and signs decked the student union at Huston-Tillotson University on Friday as the president's Jazz Collective charmed the crowd to the dance floor. Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024 Sandoval, now the president of the University of Nevada, Reno, voted at the university's student union on Tuesday afternoon. David Jackson, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024 The ambitious vision includes a plan to tear down an old furniture factory on the prison grounds and replace it with a building more reminiscent of a college campus, with a student union and classrooms. Trân Nguyễn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for student union 

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of student union was in 1892

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“Student union.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/student%20union. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.

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