club

UK/klʌb/

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Australia/klɐb/

club noun: a heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.

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Noun

club (plural clubs)

(countable) A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- 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...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- 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...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
1. (countable) An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
2. (countable, rhythmic gymnastics) An item used during routines, the apparatus consisting of a set of two clubs.
(countable) An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- 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...1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
1. (archaic, countable) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
  - He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.1783, Benjamin Franklin
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
- They laid down the Club.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
- 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.
A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
1. 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.
- You also hate Night Court? Join the club.
- Michael stood you up? Welcome to the club.
A club sandwich.
- Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia, page 123
The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
(slang) The propeller of an aeroplane.
A set which is both closed and unbounded.

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.
- "We must club the seals," I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship. "I have heard the sealers talk about clubbing them."1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
To score a victory over by a large margin.
- [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...2016 June 3, “Andy Murray enjoys stunning win against Stan Wawrinka to reach first French Open final”, in Eurosport
- 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.2019 January 16, “Ashleigh Barty loses coach but wins latest Australian Open encounter”, in The Guardian
(intransitive) To join together to form a group.
- Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC
(intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
(intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
- 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.
- The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubb'd for a feather to his hat.1730, Jonathan Swift, Death and Daphne
(transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
- to club the expense
To drift in a current with an anchor out.
To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
- 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.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...
(transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
- 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...1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
(transitive) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

club meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

club in Hindi

association of members: क्लब klab, अंजुमन añjuman
heavy stick for use as weapon or plaything: डंडा ḍaṇḍā, बल्ला ballā
establishment that provides staged entertainment: रात का क्लब rāt kā klab, क्लब klab
playing card symbol, ♣: चिड़ी ciṛī

club in Tamil

மன்றம், குழாம், சங்கம், கூடலகம், மகிழ்நிலையம், மகிழ்மன்றம்

club in Urdu

association of members: کْلَب klab, اَنْجُمَنْ anjuman
heavy stick for use as weapon or plaything: ڈَنْڈا ḍanḍā, بَلّا ballā

club in Bengali

association of members: ক্লাব klab, সঙ্ঘ śoṅgho, সমিতি śomiti, আঞ্জুমান anjuman

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club in Telugu: కళావరు kaḷāvaru
club in Malayalam: ക്ലബ്, ക്ലബ്ബ്
club in Kannada: ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ saṃsthe
club in Punjabi: ਡੰਡਾ ḍaṇḍā
club in Gujarati: ક્લબ, ક્લબને
club in Odia: ମୁଗୁର mugura
club in Sanskrit: गदा gadā
club in Sinhala: මුගුර mugura
club in Nepali: चिडी ciḍī
club in Pashto: کلب klab, کلوب klub, کلوپ klūp
club in Arabic: نَادٍ nādin, اَلنَّادِي an-nādī, جَمْعِيَّة jamʕiyya, هِرَاوَة hirāwa
club in Malay: kelab, persatuan
club in Indonesian: klub, klab
club in Thai: คลับ klàp, สโมสร sà-moo-sɔ̌ɔn, กระบอง grà-bɔɔng, ตะบอง dtà-bɔɔng
club in Vietnamese: câu lạc bộ, CLB, dùi cui, gậy tày
club in Myanmar: ကလပ် ka.lap, အသင်း a.sang:, ညှင်း hnyang:

Examples of club in a sentence

From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
“That’s a nice club to be a part of,” Rush says.2019, Tony Perrottet, “A Deep Dive Into the Plans to Take Tourists to the ‘Titanic’”, in Smithsonian Magazine:
In London you lived on beans, but you clubbed all night1997, Sarah Penny, The whiteness of bones, page 4:
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.2011, Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival:

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Synonyms of club

Forms of club

Noun
plural	clubs
Verb
third-person singular present	clubs
present participle	clubbing
past participle	clubbed
past	clubbed

Past tense of club: clubbed

Plural of club: clubs

Origin of club

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”).

Phrases with club

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Words that rhyme with club

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Questions about club

What does club mean?: Club means a heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
What is club in Hindi?: Club in Hindi is क्लब (klab), अंजुमन (añjuman), डंडा (ḍaṇḍā). See Club meaning in Hindi.
How do you use club in a sentence?: From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs.
What part of speech is club?: Club can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce club?: Club is pronounced /klʌb/ (UK).
What is the plural of club?: The plural of club is clubs.

Words near club in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: club (page history and authors); club (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); club (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਡੰਡਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); club (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ମୁଗୁର (Odia) (page history and authors); මුගුර (Sinhala) (page history and authors); चिडी (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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