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Essentially happy community cabin? (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pub

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'cabin?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'essentially happy community' is the wordplay.
'essentially' means to look at the middle letters.
'community' becomes 'ub' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The centre of 'happy' is 'p'.
'p'+'ub'='PUB'

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for pub that I've seen before include "Alehouse" , "Drinking place" , "Place to drink" , "Slug and Lettuce, perhaps" , "Inn, tavern" .)

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