club

Meanings

Noun

• An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
• A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything.
• A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
• An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
• A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
• Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
• A club sandwich.
• The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.

Verb

• To hit with a club.
• To join together to form a group.
• To combine into a club-shaped mass.
• To go to nightclubs.
• To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
• To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
• To drift in a current with an anchor out.
• To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
• To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
• To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

Related

Similar words

• confraternity
• cudgel
• team

Narrower meaning words

• sports club

Origin

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