club
a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,683 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,825 times across 175,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together also: baseball club, ball club, nine each club played six home games with teams in its own division
- a formal association of people with similar interests also: social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order he joined a golf clubthey formed a small lunch society
- stout stick that is larger at one end he carried a club in self defensehe felt as if he had been hit with a club
- a building that is occupied by a social club also: clubhouse the clubhouse needed a new roof
- golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball also: golf club, golf-club, golfclub
- a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it he led a small clubclubs were trumps
verb
- unite with a common purpose The two men clubbed together
club in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He bears his rank upon his visiting-cards, and frequents a military Club.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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The Negro was unruly, and Vance was forced to use his club.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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A gift of music, which bubbled without effort, had put him on the Glee Club.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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But king o’ the club, the gayest golden spark, Sailor o’ sailors, what sailor do I mark?
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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She was the daughter of a dissolute, evil-tempered artist whom I had met at a Bohemian club.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1