BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Boy Scouts of America mean? 

• BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (noun)
  The noun BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Boy Scouts of America" is a kind of...):

corp; corporation (a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state)

Holonyms ("Boy Scouts of America" is a member of...):

Boy Scouts (an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys)