club

Meaning

1. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
2. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
3. A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
4. A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
5. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
6. An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
7. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
8. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
9. Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
10. A club sandwich.
11. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
12. (slang) The propeller of an aeroplane.

cudgel

society

war club

baseball club

billystick

buldgeon

thick stick

meeting-place

stout stick

social circle

assosication

iron bludgeon

baton, cane

printing plate

baseball team

wood for hitting

college

golf links

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klʌb/

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”).