club
See also: Club
English
Etymology
From Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb- (“log, block”), from *gel- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”).
Pronunciation
Noun
club (plural clubs)
- A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or playthingWp.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
- An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
- An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- Template:RQ:WBsnt IvryGt
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
- 1783, Benjamin Franklin:[1]
- He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
- 1783, Benjamin Franklin:[1]
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- A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
- (Can we date this quote by Roger L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- They laid down the club.
- (Can we date this quote by Samuel Pepys and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club.
- (Can we date this quote by Roger L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
- She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.
- A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
- A playing card marked with such a symbol.
- I've got only one club in my hand.
- A playing card marked with such a symbol.
- (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
- You also hate Night Court? Join the club.
- Michael stood you up? Welcome to the club.
- A club sandwich.
- 2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia (page 123)
- Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.
- 2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia (page 123)
- The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
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Terms derived from club (noun)
Translations
weapon
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association of members
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nightclub
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playing card symbol, ♣
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hitting implement
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Verb
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- (transitive) To hit with a club.
- He clubbed the poor dog.
- (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
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- (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
- (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
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- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.
- (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
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- (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
- to club the expense
- (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
- (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
- 1876, Major-General G. E. Voyle and Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S., A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition, London: William Clowes & Sons, page 80:
- To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column.
- (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
- to club exertions
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education.
- 1854, The Eclectic Review, page 147:
- You see a person, who, added to yourself, would make, you think, a glorious being, and you proceed to idealize accordingly; you stand on his head, and outtower the tallest; you club your brains with his, and are wiser than the wisest; you add the heat of your heart to his, and produce a very furnace of love.
- (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
Derived terms
Translations
to hit with a club
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to join together to form a group
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Catalan
Etymology
Noun
club m (plural clubs)
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
club m (plural clubs, diminutive clubje n)
- club, association
- (golf) club
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (file)
Noun
club m (plural clubs)
Synonyms
- (golf club): bâton (Quebec)
External links
- “club”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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Pronunciation
Noun
club m (uncountable)
Middle English
Noun
club
- Alternative form of clubbe
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
club m (plural clubs or clubes)
- club (association)
Synonyms
- (association): asociación f, cofradía f, gremio m
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