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Club

noun

1.

A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together. Synonyms: ball club, baseball club, nine.

2.

A formal association of people with similar interests. Synonyms: gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society. "They formed a small lunch society" , "Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"

3.

Stout stick that is larger at one end. "He felt as if he had been hit with a club"

4.

A building that is occupied by a social club. Synonym: clubhouse.

5.

Golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball. Synonyms: golf-club, golf club.

6.

A playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it. "Clubs were trumps"

7.

A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink. Synonyms: cabaret, night club, nightclub, nightspot. "The gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night" , "He played the drums at a jazz club"

verb

(past & past part. clubbed; pres. part. clubbing)

1.

Unite with a common purpose.

2.

Gather and spend time together.

3.

Strike with a club or a bludgeon. Synonym: bludgeon.

4.

Gather into a club-like mass.

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"Club" Quotes from Famous Books

... that, having learnt something of the Thought Transference Theory at the Dunedin Circle or Metaphysical Club which he had attended, Mr Kitchener had attempted to make me see a vision at four A.M., but as he confessed he had been fast asleep when I did see (an hour and three quarters before his efforts started), it would take a very ingenious person ...

— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates

... inflammatory reaction and destruction of the tissue. The ray fungus can be seen in the diseased tissue or the pus as yellowish, spherical bodies about the size of a grain of sand. Each of these bodies is formed by a large number of club-like bodies arranged about ...

— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.

... length accepted by the majority. It had, however, before becoming law, to be submitted to the people; and the network of Jacobin clubs throughout the country, under the leadership of the central club at Amsterdam, carried on a widespread and secret revolutionary propaganda against the Regulation. They tried to enlist the open co-operation of the French ambassador, Noel, but he, acting under the instruction of the ...

— History of Holland • George Edmundson

... they walked by the shop in St. James's Street, or passed through the lobby of the House of Commons. His studio was a garret, or little better; his place of amusement a tavern-parlor, where his club held its nightly sittings over their pipes and sanded floor. You could not have society represented by men to whom it was not familiar. When Gavarni came to England a few years since—one of the wittiest of men, one of the most brilliant and dexterous of draughtsmen—he ...

— John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character • William Makepeace Thackeray

... plantations," continued James. "Life is hard and lonely for the Venusian plantation owner. The Venusian Nationalists are, to my knowledge, no more than a group of landowners who have gotten together and formed a club, a fraternity. It's true they speak the Venusian dialect, these groups have taken names from the old Venusian explorers, but I hardly think it ...

— The Revolt on Venus • Carey Rockwell

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