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nightclub

/ˈnʌɪtklʌb/

nightclub noun: a public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.

Noun

nightclub (plural nightclubs)

  1. A public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.
    • They respond instantly to the faintest rustling in the covert of a sheaf of Ulysses S. Grants, or the homely, rustic tinkle of a wheelbarrow full of rubies being jounced along over a nightclub floor.1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, page 22
    • EARLY this summer, Joshua J. Pelton decided that he was meant to live in Orlando, Fla. So he quit his sales job in Detroit, packed his car with all the belongings that fit, put the rest in storage, and drove southeast daydreaming about sundrenched winters and packed nightclubs.2007 September 6, Lisa Belkin, “What Do Young Jobseekers Want? (Something Other Than the Job)”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
    Synonyms:
    nightspot
  2. (Philippines) A strip club.

Verb

nightclub (third-person singular simple present nightclubs, present participle nightclubbing, simple past and past participle nightclubbed)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To visit a nightclub (or nightclubs) for entertainment.
    • Our first night in the big city we went out nightclubbing. The next morning we stayed in hung over.

nightclub meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

nightclub in Hindi

establishment that is open late at night
रात का क्लब rāt kā klab, क्लब klab, नाइट क्लब nāiṭ klab

nightclub in Marathi

नाईटक्लब

nightclub in Urdu

establishment that is open late at night
نائِٹ کَلَب nāiṭ kalab, نائِٹ کْلَب nāiṭ klab

nightclub in Bengali

establishment that is open late at night
নৈশক্লাব nōiśoklab
More languagesFewer languages
nightclub in Telugu
నైట్క్లబ్
nightclub in Malayalam
നിശാക്ലബ്
nightclub in Kannada
ನೈಟ್ಕ್ಲಬ್
nightclub in Gujarati
નાઇટક્લબ, નાઈટક્લબ
nightclub in Odia
ନାଇଟକ୍ଲବ୍, ନାଇଟ୍କ୍ଲବ୍
nightclub in Nepali
नाइटक्लब
nightclub in Arabic
نَادٍ لَيْلِيّ nādin layliyy, النَادِي اللَيْلِيّ an-nādī l-layliyy
nightclub in Malay
kelab malam
nightclub in Thai
ไนท์คลับ nái-klàp
nightclub in Vietnamese
câu lạc bộ giải trí, câu lạc bộ đêm, hộp đêm
nightclub in Myanmar
နိုက်ကလပ် nuikka.lap

Examples of nightclub in a sentence

  • He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
  • I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
  • A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.

All 40 example sentences with nightclub

Synonyms of nightclub

Forms of nightclub

Noun
pluralnightclubs
alternative formnight club
Verb
third-person singular presentnightclubs
present participlenightclubbing
past participlenightclubbed
pastnightclubbed

Plural of nightclub: nightclubs

Origin of nightclub

From night + club.

Words formed from nightclub

Questions about nightclub

What does nightclub mean?
Nightclub means a public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.
What is nightclub in Hindi?
Nightclub in Hindi is रात का क्लब (rāt kā klab), क्लब (klab), नाइट क्लब (nāiṭ klab). See Nightclub meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nightclub?
Nightclub can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce nightclub?
Nightclub is pronounced /ˈnʌɪtklʌb/.
What is the plural of nightclub?
The plural of nightclub is nightclubs.

Words near nightclub in the dictionary

  1. Nightcliff gardener's disease
  2. nightcloth
  3. nightclothed
  4. nightclothes
  5. nightcloths
  6. nightclub
  7. nightclub-goer
  8. nightclub-goers
  9. nightclubbed
  10. nightclubber
  11. nightclubbers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nightclub (page history and authors); nightclub (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nightclub (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nightclub (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nightclub (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nightclub (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nightclub (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nightclub (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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