club
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
golf
government
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
military
nautical
politics
sciences
sports
transport
war
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: clubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clubs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clubbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clubbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clubbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
gloss: A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
pos: noun
examples: 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
gloss: An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
pos: noun
examples: She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.
gloss: A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
pos: noun
gloss: A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
pos: noun
examples: I've got only one club in my hand.
gloss: Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: You also hate Night Court? Join the club.
Michael stood you up? Welcome to the club.
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.
gloss: A club sandwich.
pos: noun
examples: Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.
gloss: The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
pos: noun
gloss: The propeller of an aeroplane.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A set which is both closed and unbounded.
pos: noun
gloss: To hit with a club.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He clubbed the poor dog.
"We must club the seals," I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship. "I have heard the sealers talk about clubbing them."
gloss: To score a victory over by a large margin.
pos: verb
examples: [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.
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.
gloss: To join together to form a group.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.
gloss: To combine into a club-shaped mass.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
gloss: To go to nightclubs.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We went clubbing in Ibiza.
When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.
In London you lived on beans, but you clubbed all night
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.
He had been clubbing until the early hours
gloss: To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.
gloss: To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to club the expense
gloss: To drift in a current with an anchor out.
pos: verb
gloss: To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to club exertions
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.
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.
gloss: To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: confraternity
cudgel
team
Related words: wand
Derived words: aero club
aeroclub
ballclub
ball club
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
caveman's club
Christmas club
Cinderella club
clubable
clubbable
clubber
clubbie
clubbish
clubbism
clubbist
club blues
clubby
club car
club cell
club chair
clubdom
club drug
clubface
clubfellow
club fender
club finger coral
clubfist
clubfisted
clubfoot
club foot
club-foot
clubfooted
club-footed
clubful
club fungus
clubgoer
club-goer
clubgoing
club good
club gourd
clubgrass
club hair
club hammer
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
clubnight
club night
club nine
club out
clubrat
clubroom
clubroot
club-rush
clubrush
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
club together
clubbing
go clubbing
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: klub
lang: Albanian
word: klub
lang: Arabic
word: نَادٍ
roman: nādin
lang: Arabic
word: اَلنَّادِي
roman: an-nādī
lang: Arabic
word: جَمْعِيَّة
roman: jamʕiyya
lang: Arabic
word: نادي
roman: nādi
lang: Armenian
word: ակումբ
roman: akumb
lang: Armenian
word: կլուբ
roman: klub
lang: Azerbaijani
word: klub
lang: Bashkir
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Belarusian
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Bengali
word: ক্লাব
roman: klab
lang: Bengali
word: সঙ্ঘ
roman: śoṅgho
lang: Bengali
word: সমিতি
roman: śomiti
lang: Bengali
word: আঞ্জুমান
roman: anjuman
lang: Bulgarian
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Burmese
word: ကလပ်
roman: ka.lap
lang: Burmese
word: အသင်း
roman: a.sang:
lang: Catalan
word: club
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 俱樂部 /俱乐部
roman: keoi¹ lok⁶ bou⁶
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 俱樂部 /俱乐部
roman: khî-lo̍k-phu
lang: Chinese
word: 俱樂部 /俱乐部
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 俱樂部 /俱乐部
roman: jùlèbù
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 俱樂部 /俱乐部
roman: ⁶jiu-loq₈-bu₆
lang: Czech
word: klub
lang: Czech
word: spolek
lang: Danish
word: klub
lang: Dutch
word: club
lang: Erzya
word: керша
roman: kerša
lang: Esperanto
word: klubo
lang: Estonian
word: klubi
lang: Faroese
word: klubbi
lang: Finnish
word: kerho
lang: Finnish
word: yhdistys
lang: Finnish
word: seura
lang: Finnish
word: klubi
lang: French
word: club
lang: Galician
word: club
lang: Georgian
word: კლუბი
roman: ḳlubi
lang: German
word: Klub
lang: German
word: Verein
lang: Greek
word: λέσχη
roman: léschi
lang: Greek
word: κλαμπ
roman: klamp
lang: Greek
word: σωματείο
roman: somateío
lang: Hebrew
word: מוֹעֲדוֹן
roman: mo'adón
lang: Hebrew
word: חוּג
roman: ḥug
lang: Hindi
word: क्लब
roman: klab
lang: Hindi
word: अंजुमन
roman: añjuman
lang: Hungarian
word: klub
lang: Hungarian
word: szakkör
lang: Icelandic
word: klúbbur
lang: Indonesian
word: klub
lang: Indonesian
word: klab
lang: Irish
word: cumann
lang: Italian
word: club
lang: Italian
word: circolo
lang: Japanese
word: クラブ
roman: kurabu
lang: Japanese
word: 部
roman: bu
lang: Japanese
word: 倶楽部
roman: kurabu
lang: Japanese
word: 同好会
roman: dōkōkai
lang: Kazakh
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Khmer
word: ក្លឹប
roman: kləp
lang: Khmer
word: បន
roman: bɑɑn
lang: Korean
word: 동아리
roman: dong'ari
lang: Korean
word: 동호회
roman: donghohoe
lang: Central Kurdish
word: یانە
roman: yane
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: yane
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: kulûb
lang: Kyrgyz
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Lao
word: ສະໂມສອນ
roman: sa mō sǭn
lang: Latin
word: sodālitās
lang: Latvian
word: klubs
lang: Lithuanian
word: klubas
lang: Macedonian
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Malay
word: kelab
lang: Malay
word: persatuan
lang: Mongolian
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: klubb
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: klubb
lang: Pashto
word: کلب
roman: klab
lang: Pashto
word: کلوب
roman: klub
lang: Pashto
word: کلوپ
roman: klūp
lang: Iranian Persian
word: باشْگاه
roman: bâšgâh
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اَنْجُمَنْ
roman: anjoman
lang: Iranian Persian
word: کُلوب
roman: kolub
lang: Polish
word: klub
lang: Polish
word: stowarzyszenie
lang: Portuguese
word: clube
lang: Romanian
word: club
lang: Russian
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cròilean
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: клу̑б
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: klȗb
lang: Slovak
word: klub
lang: Slovene
word: klub
lang: Southern Altai
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Spanish
word: club
lang: Swahili
word: klabu
lang: Swedish
word: klubb
lang: Tajik
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Tajik
word: бошгоҳ
roman: bošgoh
lang: Thai
word: คลับ
roman: klàp
lang: Thai
word: สโมสร
roman: sà-moo-sɔ̌ɔn
lang: Turkish
word: kulüp
lang: Turkish
word: klüp
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: جمعیت
roman: cemʼiyet
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: انجمن
roman: encümen
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: محفل
roman: mahfil
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قلوب
roman: klüb
lang: Turkmen
word: klub
lang: Ukrainian
word: клуб
roman: klub
lang: Urdu
word: کْلَب
roman: klab
lang: Urdu
word: اَنْجُمَنْ
roman: anjuman
lang: Uyghur
word: كۇلۇب
roman: kulub
lang: Uzbek
word: klub
lang: Vietnamese
word: câu lạc bộ
lang: Vietnamese
word: CLB
lang: Volapük
word: klub
lang: Welsh
word: clwb
lang: Yiddish
word: קלוב
roman: klub
lang: Afrikaans
word: knuppel
lang: Ahtna
word: xał
lang: Albanian
word: shkop
lang: Arabic
word: هِرَاوَة
roman: hirāwa
lang: Armenian
word: մահակ
roman: mahak
lang: Armenian
word: գուրզ
roman: gurz
lang: Armenian
word: լախտ
roman: laxt
lang: Armenian
word: կոպալ
roman: kopal
lang: Bashkir
word: күҫәк
roman: küśək
lang: Belarusian
word: дубі́нка
roman: dubínka
lang: Belarusian
word: дручо́к
roman: dručók
lang: Bulgarian
word: со́па
roman: sópa
lang: Bulgarian
word: тоя́га
roman: tojága
lang: Catalan
word: bastó
lang: Catalan
word: garrot
lang: Catalan
word: porra
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 棒
roman: bàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 棍棒
roman: gùnbàng
lang: Czech
word: kyj
lang: Czech
word: klacek
lang: Czech
word: obušek
lang: Danish
word: kølle
lang: Dutch
word: knuppel
lang: Esperanto
word: klabo
lang: Finnish
word: nuija
lang: Finnish
word: maila (plaything)
lang: French
word: bâton
lang: French
word: gourdin
lang: Galician
word: bastón
lang: Galician
word: moca
lang: Galician
word: baloco
lang: Galician
word: porra
lang: Georgian
word: კეტი
roman: ḳeṭi
lang: Georgian
word: კომბალი
roman: ḳombali
lang: Georgian
word: ხელკეტი
roman: xelḳeṭi
lang: German
word: Keule
lang: Greek
word: ρόπαλο
roman: rópalo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ῥόπαλον
roman: rhópalon
lang: Hawaiian
word: hoa
lang: Hebrew
word: אַלָּה
roman: alá
lang: Hebrew
word: נַבּוּט
roman: nabút
lang: Hindi
word: डंडा
roman: ḍaṇḍā
lang: Hindi
word: बल्ला
roman: ballā
lang: Hungarian
word: bunkó
lang: Hungarian
word: furkó
lang: Hungarian
word: bunkósbot
lang: Hungarian
word: furkósbot
lang: Icelandic
word: kylfa
lang: Ingrian
word: dubina
lang: Irish
word: smíste
lang: Irish
word: cleith
lang: Italian
word: clava
lang: Italian
word: bastone
lang: Italian
word: mazza
lang: Japanese
word: 棒
roman: bō
lang: Japanese
word: 棍棒
roman: konbō
lang: Khmer
word: ព្រនង់
roman: prɔɔnŭəng
lang: Korean
word: 몽둥이
roman: mongdung'i
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: kaşok
lang: Latgalian
word: mylyns
lang: Latgalian
word: vāza
lang: Latin
word: fūstis
lang: Latin
word: clāva
lang: Latin
word: matia
lang: Latvian
word: milna
lang: Latvian
word: vāle
lang: Lithuanian
word: kuoka
lang: Lower Tanana
word: xwɬ
lang: Marshallese
word: aļaļ
lang: Mongolian
word: муна
roman: muna
lang: Mongolian
word: бороохой
roman: borooxoj
lang: Navajo
word: tsihał
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: klubbe
lang: Ojibwe
word: bagamaagan
lang: Old English
word: sagol
lang: Old Norse
word: klubba
lang: Iranian Persian
word: چُماق
roman: čomâġ
lang: Iranian Persian
word: چُنْبِه
roman: čonbe
lang: Iranian Persian
word: باتون
roman: bâtun
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Pruntel
lang: Polish
word: maczuga
lang: Portuguese
word: clava
lang: Portuguese
word: bastão
lang: Portuguese
word: porrete
lang: Portuguese
word: taco
lang: Romanian
word: bâtă
lang: Russian
word: дуби́нка
roman: dubínka
lang: Russian
word: дуби́на
roman: dubína
lang: Russian
word: па́лица
roman: pálica
lang: Sanskrit
word: गदा
roman: gadā
lang: Slovak
word: obušok
lang: Slovak
word: kyjak
lang: Slovak
word: palica
lang: Southern Altai
word: токпок
roman: tokpok
lang: Spanish
word: bastón
lang: Spanish
word: garrote
lang: Spanish
word: porra
lang: Sundanese
word: panakol
lang: Swahili
word: rungu
lang: Swedish
word: klubba
lang: Tarifit
word: qabu
lang: Thai
word: กระบอง
roman: grà-bɔɔng
lang: Thai
word: ตะบอง
roman: dtà-bɔɔng
lang: Tocharian B
word: śakāto
lang: Turkish
word: çomak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طوپوز
roman: topuz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مردانه
roman: merdane
lang: Ukrainian
word: дрючо́к
roman: drjučók
lang: Ukrainian
word: дуби́нка
roman: dubýnka
lang: Ukrainian
word: па́лиця
roman: pálycja
lang: Urdu
word: ڈَنْڈا
roman: ḍanḍā
lang: Urdu
word: بَلّا
roman: ballā
lang: Uyghur
word: تاياق
roman: tayaq
lang: Uzbek
word: tayoq
lang: Vietnamese
word: dùi cui
lang: Vietnamese
word: gậy tày
lang: Vietnamese
word: gậy
lang: Volapük
word: lustaf
lang: Woiwurrung
word: kud-jee-run