club Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
    nine; baseball club; ball club.
    • each club played six home games with teams in its own division
  2. noun a formal association of people with similar interests
    guild; society; social club; gild; lodge; order.
    • he joined a golf club
    • they formed a small lunch society
    • men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
  3. noun stout stick that is larger at one end
    • he carried a club in self defense
    • he felt as if he had been hit with a club
  4. noun a building that is occupied by a social club
    clubhouse.
    • the clubhouse needed a new roof
  5. noun golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball
    golf-club; golf club.
  6. noun a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it
    • he led a small club
    • clubs were trumps
  7. noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
    night club; cabaret; nightspot; nightclub.
    • don't expect a good meal at a cabaret
    • the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night
    • he played the drums at a jazz club
  8. verb unite with a common purpose
    • The two men clubbed together
  9. verb gather and spend time together
    • They always club together
  10. verb strike with a club or a bludgeon
    bludgeon.
  11. verb gather into a club-like mass
    • club hair

WordNet

Club noun
Etymology
CF. Icel. klubba, klumba, club, klumbufir a clubfoot, SW. klubba club, Dan. klump lump, klub a club, G. klumpen clump, kolben club, and E. clump.
Definitions
  1. A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
    But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle. Shak.
  2. Cf. the Spanish name bastos, and Sp. baston staff, club. Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
  3. An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.
    They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson.
    He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club. Macaulay.
  4. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
    They laid down the club. L'Estrange.
    We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. Pepys.
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Club transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Clubbed ; present participle & verbal noun Clubbing
Definitions
  1. To beat with a club.
  2. (Mil.) 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. Farrow.
  3. To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
  4. To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
Club intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
    Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. Dryden.
  2. To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
    The owl, the raven, and the bat, Clubbed for a feather to his hat. Swift.
  3. (Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

Webster 1913