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say it: kluhb
club is a noun and verb meaning "a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together". It is pronounced /ˈklʌb/ — kluhb. It carries 11 recorded senses.
a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
“each club played six home games with teams in its own division”
a formal association of people with similar interests
“he joined a golf club”
“they formed a small lunch society”
“men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today”
stout stick that is larger at one end
“he carried a club in self defense”
“he felt as if he had been hit with a club”
a building that is occupied by a social club
“the clubhouse needed a new roof”
golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball
a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it
“he led a small club”
“clubs were trumps”
a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
“don't expect a good meal at a cabaret”
“the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night”
“he played the drums at a jazz club”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for club come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.