club

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A group of people who meet because they share an interest or activity.

   She joined a tennis club at university.

2. 2
   noun

   A place where people go to dance and listen to music at night.

   They danced until late at the new club downtown.

3. 3
   noun

   A heavy stick used as a weapon.

   The guard carried a wooden club.

4. 4
   verb

   To hit someone or something with a heavy stick.

   The police were accused of clubbing the protesters.

5. 5
   noun

   A playing card of the suit marked with black three-leaf shapes.

   He played the king of clubs.

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Simplified etymology

Club in the sense “heavy stick with a thick end” comes from Old Norse clubba and is related to clump. Its sporting-equipment sense appeared in late Middle English, and the name of the card suit dates from the mid-16th century. The sense “association of people” arose in the mid-17th century, perhaps from the idea of people clumping together or pooling costs, though its precise development is uncertain.

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”).

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