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bowladrome

bowladrome noun: synonym of bowling alley.

Noun

bowladrome (plural bowladromes)

  1. (rare) Synonym of bowling alley.
    • Mr. Anthony Ackerman, a teacher of high school English and Master of Bridgman Cottage, is also Social Affairs Coordinator for the Upper School. Under his leadership many events took place for our older girls and boys. These included such things as visits to local bowladromes, social and square...1958, Edward J. Waterhouse, “Report of the Director, 1958”, in One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Annual Report of Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Mass.: Perkins School for the Blind, →OCLC...
    • The activities of bowling alleys came under the searching eyes of the lawmakers when they refused to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages in bowling alleys or bowladromes (not applicable to premises licensed before August 20, 1962) and again when they sustained the Governor’s veto on H.2760 which...1962 September, “Every Businessman’s Concern”, in The Magazine of Cambridge, volume 22, number 11, Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, →OCLC, page 8, column 2
    Synonyms:
    bowling alley

Examples of bowladrome in a sentence

  • The Château Grande was out on the main road to Worcester, a highway eventually leading to New York and lined with fried-chicken take-out stands, miniature golf courses, bowladromes and motels.1993, John D. Spooner, “Duke’s Game”, in The Foursome, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 192:
  • They were passing malls and bowladromes and home improvement superstores.2002, Mark Costello, chapter 12, in Big If, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 199:

Synonyms of bowladrome

Forms of bowladrome

pluralbowladromes

Origin of bowladrome

From bowl + -a- + -drome. Compare French boulodrome.

Questions about bowladrome

What does bowladrome mean?
Bowladrome means synonym of bowling alley.
How do you use bowladrome in a sentence?
The Château Grande was out on the main road to Worcester, a highway eventually leading to New York and lined with fried-chicken take-out stands, miniature golf courses, bowladromes and motels.
What part of speech is bowladrome?
Bowladrome is a noun.
What is the plural of bowladrome?
The plural of bowladrome is bowladromes.

Words near bowladrome in the dictionary

  1. bowl-offs
  2. bowl-out
  3. bowl-outs
  4. bowl-shaped
  5. bowla
  6. bowladrome
  7. bowladromes
  8. Bowland
  9. Bowland Forest High
  10. Bowland Forest Low
  11. Bowlands

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