club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klŭb
ipa: /klʌb/
ipa: /klʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: clubs
Etymology: Inherited 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”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 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 Oct 2022:
glosses: A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
glosses: A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
An item used during routines, the apparatus consisting of a set of two clubs.
qualifier: rhythmic gymnastics
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
examples: text: He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
ref: 1783, Benjamin Franklin
glosses: An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
examples: text: They laid down the Club.
ref: 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:
text: 17 Mat 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary
first we went and dined at a French house , but paid 10s for our part of the club
glosses: A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
examples: text: She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.
glosses: An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
examples: text: I've got only one club in my hand.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: 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.
examples: text: You also hate Night Court? Join the club.
text: Michael stood you up? Welcome to the club.
text: 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.
ref: 2019, Tony Perrottet, “A Deep Dive Into the Plans to Take Tourists to the ‘Titanic’”, in Smithsonian Magazine:
glosses: Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
examples: text: Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.
ref: 2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia, page 123:
glosses: A club sandwich.
glosses: The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The propeller of an aeroplane.
Synonyms: sense: association of members
word: confraternity
topics: weapon
weaponry
military
tools
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
war
government
politics
word: cudgel
sense: sports association
word: team
Hyponyms: sports club
Derived terms: aero club
aeroclub
ball-club
ballclub
ball club
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
club finger coral
clubfist
clubfisted
club foot
club-foot
clubfoot
clubfooted
club-footed
clubful
club fungus
clubgoer
club-goer
clubgoing
club good
club gourd
clubgrass
club hair
clubhand
club haul
clubhaul
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
going home 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
shipowners' club
sick club
six-month club
soccer club
social club
strip club
student club
suicide club
superclub
supper club
tail club
tennis club
toilet club
trench club
trouble club
underclub
warclub
war club
warehouse club
welcome to the club
yacht club
youth club
yo-yo club
Related terms: wand