nightclub

See also: night club

English

Etymology

From night +‎ club.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʌɪtklʌb/

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Noun

nightclub (plural nightclubs)

1. A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.

   Synonym: nightspot

   Hypernym: club

   • 1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, page 22:

     They respond instantly to the faintest rustling in the covert of a sheaf of Ulysses S. Grants, or the homely, rustic tinkle of a wheelbarrow full of rubies being jounced along over a nightclub floor.

   • 2007 September 6, Lisa Belkin, “What Do Young Jobseekers Want? (Something Other Than the Job)”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     EARLY this summer, Joshua J. Pelton decided that he was meant to live in Orlando, Fla. So he quit his sales job in Detroit, packed his car with all the belongings that fit, put the rest in storage, and drove southeast daydreaming about sundrenched winters and packed nightclubs.

   • 2008 March 21, Tim Sullivan, “Bhutanese reluctantly stepping into world of democracy”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section)‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 December 2013‎^[3]:

     This is a country where nightclubs in Thimbu, the capital, throb with techno music, but where smoking is illegal and television did not arrive until 1999.

2. (Philippines) A strip club.

Derived terms

• nightclubber
• nightclubby
• nightclub-goer
• nightclublike

Related terms

• clubber
• clubbing
• clubgoer
• clubhouse

Translations

establishment that is open late at night

• Afrikaans: nagklub
• Arabic: نَادٍ لَيْلِيّ m (nādin layliyy) (indefinite), النَادِي اللَيْلِيّ m (an-nādī l-layliyy) (definite)
• Armenian: գիշերային ակումբ (gišerayin akumb)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܣܡܵܟ݂ܵܐ ܠܲܝܠܵܝܵܐ m (bēt smāḵā laylāyā)
• Azerbaijani: gecə klubu
• Belarusian: начны́ клуб m (načný klub), дыскатэ́ка f (dyskatéka)
• Bengali: নৈশক্লাব (nōiśoklab)
• Bulgarian: но́щен клуб m (nóšten klub)
• Burmese: နိုက်ကလပ် (nuikka.lap)
• Catalan: discoteca f, club nocturn m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 夜總會 / 夜总会 (je⁶ zung² wui^6-2), 夜店 (je⁶ dim³)

  Mandarin: 夜總會 / 夜总会 (zh) (yèzǒnghuì), 夜店 (zh) (yèdiàn)

• Corsican: notturnu m, discuteca f, night club m
• Czech: noční klub m
• Danish: natklub c
• Dutch: nachtclub (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: amuzejo
• Estonian: ööklubi (et)
• Finnish: yökerho (fi)
• French: boîte de nuit (fr) f, discothèque (fr) f, boîte (fr) f, discothèque (fr) f
• Galician: discoteca (gl) f
• Georgian: ღამის კლუბი (ɣamis ḳlubi)
• German: Nachtklub (de) m, Nightclub (de) m, Diskothek (de) f
• Greek: νυχτερινό κέντρο n (nychterinó kéntro)
• Hebrew: מוֹעֲדוֹן לַיְלָה (he) m (mo'adón láyla)
• Hindi: रात का क्लब m (rāt kā klab), क्लब (hi) m (klab), नाइट क्लब m (nāiṭ klab)
• Hungarian: szórakozóhely (hu), mulató (hu), bár (hu), diszkó (hu)
• Icelandic: skemmtistaður, næturklúbbur m
• Irish: club oíche m
• Italian: notturno (it) m, night club (it) m, discoteca (it) f
• Japanese: ナイトクラブ (ja) (naito kurabu)
• Kazakh: түнгі клуб (tüñı klub)
• Khmer: បារ (km) (baa), អគាររាត្រី (ʼaʼkiə riətrəy), រោងរាំ (roong rŏəm)
• Korean: 나이트 클럽 (naiteu keulleop)
• Kyrgyz: түнкү клуб (tünkü klub)
• Latvian: nakts klubs m
• Lithuanian: naktinis klubas m
• Macedonian: ноќен клуб m (noḱen klub)
• Malay: kelab malam (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nattklubb m

  Nynorsk: nattklubb m

• Pannonian Rusyn: ноцни клуб m inan (nocni klub)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: باشْگاهِ شَبانِه (bâšgâh-e šabâne)

• Polish: klub nocny (pl) m
• Portuguese: boate (pt) f, casa noturna (pt) f, discoteca (pt) f, clube (pt) m, balada (pt) f
• Romanian: discotecă (ro) f, club de noapte n
• Russian: ночно́й клуб m (nočnój klub), дискоте́ка (ru) f (diskotéka)
• Scots: nichtclub
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ноћни клуб m

  Roman: noćni klub m

• Sicilian: discuteca f
• Slovak: nočný klub m
• Slovene: nočni klub m
• Spanish: club nocturno m, discoteca (es) f, boliche (es) m (South America)
• Swedish: nattklubb (sv) c
• Tajik: клуби шабона (klub-i šabona), бошгоҳи шабона (bošgoh-i šabona)
• Thai: ไนท์คลับ (nái-klàp)
• Turkish: gece klübü
• Turkmen: gijeki klub
• Ukrainian: нічни́й клуб m (ničnýj klub), дискоте́ка f (dyskotéka)
• Urdu: نائِٹ کَلَب m (nāiṭ kalab), نائِٹ کْلَب m (nāiṭ klab)
• Uzbek: tungi klubi
• Vietnamese: câu lạc bộ giải trí, câu lạc bộ đêm, hộp đêm (vi)
• Welsh: clwb nos (cy) m
• Yakut: түүҥҥү кулууп (tüüŋŋü kuluup)

Verb

nightclub (third-person singular simple present nightclubs, present participle nightclubbing, simple past and past participle nightclubbed)

1. (informal, ambitransitive) To visit a nightclub (or nightclubs) for entertainment.

   Our first night in the big city we went out nightclubbing. The next morning we stayed in hung over.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English nightclub.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaidklub/ [ˈnai̯ð̞.kluβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -aidklub
• IPA^(key): /ˈnaiklub/ [ˈnai̯.kluβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -aiklub

Noun

nightclub m (plural nightclubs or nightclubes)

1. nightclub

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.