# club
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: klŭb, IPA: /klʌb/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /klʊb/
* Rhymes: -ʌb

### Noun

club (plural clubs)
* An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
** 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC: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:
    He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
* A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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.
** 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎, archived from the original on 17 October 2022:The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.
** An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
* A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
** 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:They laid down the Club.
** 17 Mat 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary
    first we went and dined at a French house , but paid 10s for our part of the club
* 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.
* (card games) 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.
* (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
** 2019, Tony Perrottet, “A Deep Dive Into the Plans to Take Tourists to the ‘Titanic’”, in Smithsonian Magazine:He also wanted to be only the second person to travel solo to at least that depth, the other being James Cameron, who in 2012 took an Australian-built sub into the Mariana Trench, reaching Challenger Deep, the ocean’s deepest point, touching down at close to 36,000 feet. “That’s a nice club to be a part of,” Rush says. Two weeks later, that club welcomed a new member, when a Texas businessman named Victor Vescovo reached 27,000 feet in his own experimental submersible.
    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.
* The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
* (World War I– World War II, military slang) The propeller of an aeroplane.

#### Synonyms

* (association of members): confraternity
* (weapon): cudgel
* (sports association): team
* See also Thesaurus:stick

#### Hyponyms

* sports club

#### Derived terms

* aero club
* aeroclub
* ball-club
* ball club
* ballclub
* balloon club
* Baltimore club
* beefsteak club
* benefit club
* billy club
* book club
* book sales club
* booster club
* bottle club
* bowling club
* boy's club
* boys' club
* breakfast club
* Brick City club
* camera club
* Christmas club
* Cinderella club
* clubable
* clubbable
* clubber
* clubbie
* clubbish
* clubbism
* clubbist
* club blues
* clubby
* club cell
* club chair
* clubdom
* club drug
* clubface
* clubfellow
* club fender
* clubfist
* clubfisted
* club-foot
* club foot
* clubfoot
* club-footed
* clubfooted
* clubful
* club fungus
* club-goer
* clubgoer
* clubgoing
* club good
* club gourd
* clubgrass
* club hair
* clubhand
* clubhaul
* club haul
* clubhead
* club-headed
* club-hop
* club-hopper
* club-hopping
* clubhouse
* club kid
* clubland
* club law
* clubless
* clublike
* clubling
* clubmaker
* clubman
* clubmaster
* clubmate
* club-moss
* club moss
* club music
* club night
* clubnight
* club nine
* club out
* club penguin
* clubrat
* clubroom
* clubroot
* clubrush
* club-rush
* club rush
* club sandwich
* club soda
* clubstaurant
* club steak
* clubster
* club tape
* club topsail
* club-walking
* clubwear
* clubwoman
* clubzine
* cock-and-hen club
* country club
* cricket club
* cyberclub
* DDLC
* devil's club
* eating club
* e-club
* expansion club
* fan club
* farm club
* final club
* fitness club
* football club
* game club
* gentleman's club
* gentlemen's club
* glee club
* golden club
* golf club
* golf-club
* goose club
* gun club
* gunstock war club
* health club
* Hercules' club
* Hercules club
* homework club
* hybrid club
* Indian club
* interclub
* in the club
* in the pudding club
* intraclub
* Jersey club
* job club
* join the club
* kennel club
* key club
* lift club
* megaclub
* motorcycle club
* night club
* nightclub
* nonclub
* old boys' club
* on the club
* overclub
* play club
* rescue club
* rowing club
* service club
* sex club
* shepherd's club
* sick club
* six-month club
* social club
* strip club
* student club
* suicide club
* superclub
* supper club
* tennis club
* trench club
* trouble club
* underclub
* war club
* warclub
* warehouse club
* yacht club
* youth club

#### Descendants

* → Afrikaans: klub
* → Czech: klub
* → Dutch: club
* → French: club
** → Khmer: ក្លឹប (kləp)
** → Romanian: club
** → Ottoman Turkish: قلوب (klüb)
*** Turkish: kulüp
* → German: Club, Klub (used to be common for some decades, but is now becoming less frequent again)
** Russian: клуб (klub), клубъ (klub) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
*** → Yakut: кулууп (kuluup)
*** → Yiddish: קלוב (klub)
** Serbo-Croatian: klȗb/клу̑б
* → Greek: κλαμπ (klamp), γκλομπ (gklomp), γκλοπ n (gklop), κλομπ n (klomp)
* → Indonesian: klub
* → Japanese: 倶楽部 (kurabu), クラブ (see there for further descendants)
* → Malay: kelab
* → Spanish: club
* → Tokelauan: kalapu
* → Welsh: clwb

#### Translations

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#### See also

* wand

### Verb

club (third-person singular simple present clubs, present participle clubbing, simple past and past participle clubbed)
* (transitive) To hit with a club.
    He clubbed the poor dog.
* To score a victory over by a large margin.
** 2016 June 3, “Andy Murray enjoys stunning win against Stan Wawrinka to reach first French Open final”, in Eurosport‎:[Andy] Murray dropped serve only once in the match, in the 10th game of the third set, and was simply too good for [Stan] Wawrinka, who was left confused by the variety, inventiveness and power hitting of Murray from deep in the court as an opponent who clubbed [Novak] Djokovic in last year's final was simply overwhelmed despite the Parisian crowd attempting to inspire a comeback.
** 2019 January 16, “Ashleigh Barty loses coach but wins latest Australian Open encounter”, in The Guardian‎:Playing with freedom and no fear, Ashleigh Barty has powered into the Australian Open third round without even a coach. Barty clubbed China’s Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time.
* (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
** 1687,, “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.
* (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
    a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
* (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
** 1997, Sarah Penny, The whiteness of bones‎, page 4:In London you lived on beans, but you clubbed all night
** 2011, Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival‎:I was rarely there —I was clubbing at night, sleeping during the day, back and forth to L.A.—but I had more money than I knew what to do with.
** 2013, Fabrice Humbert, Sila's Fortune‎:He had been clubbing until the early hours
    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.
** 1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne:The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.
* (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, 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, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC: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

* club together
* clubbing
* go clubbing

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, page 34

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

### Noun

club m (plural clubs)
* club (association)
* (golf) club

#### Derived terms

* club escacs
* club esportiu
* club nàutic
* club nocturn

### Further reading

* “club”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English club. Doublet of klomp.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /klʏp/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: club
* Rhymes: -ʏp

### Noun

club m (plural clubs, diminutive clubje n or (Hollandic) cluppie n)
* club, association, organisation
* (golf) club
* nightclub
    Synonyms: nachtclub, discotheek

#### Usage notes

* The diminutive clubje is often used derogatorily and tends to connote corruption, collusion and/or subversion.

#### Derived terms

* clubhuis
* clubnacht
* damclub
* golfclub
* handbalclub
* nachtclub
* schaakclub
* seksclub
* skiclub
* stamclub
* technoclub
* tennisclub
* voetbalclub

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

### Pronunciation

* (France) IPA: /klœb/, /klyb/
* (Quebec) IPA: /klʏb/, /klɔb/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

club m (plural clubs)
* club (association)
* (golf) club
    Synonym: (Quebec) bâton

#### Derived terms

* bienvenue au club
* soda club

#### Descendants

* → Khmer: ក្លឹប (kləp)
* → Romanian: club
* → Ottoman Turkish: قلوب (klüb)
** Turkish: kulüp

### Further reading

* “club”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English club.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklab/, /ˈklɛb/, /ˈklub/, /ˈkløb/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ab, -ɛb, -ub
* Hyphenation: clùb

### Noun

club m (invariable)
* club (association)
* club (golf implement)

### References

* ↑ club in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Middle English
### Noun

club
* Alternative form of clubbe

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French club.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

club n (plural cluburi)
* club

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English club.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklub/ [ˈkluβ̞]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ub
* Syllabification: club

### Noun

club m (plural clubs or clubes)
* club (association)
    Synonyms: asociación, cofradía, gremio

#### Derived terms

* club de fans
* Club de los 27
* club nocturno

### Further reading

* “club”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10