Word a Day
club
What does club mean?
club (noun): a formal association of people with similar interests.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use club in a sentence?
- He joined a golf club. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce club?
/klʌb/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does club come from?
Inherited from Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of club?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “club”?
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What does “club” mean?
something done (usually as opposed to something said)
Not quite: that's what action means.
a brief version of the essential meaning of something
Not quite: that's what point means.
a married woman, especially in relation to her spouse
Not quite: that's what wife means.
a formal association of people with similar interests
Right! That's what “club” means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “club”?
service
Not quite: service means something else.
society
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problem
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control
Not quite: control means something else.
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