What is the meaning of club?

noun

• A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
  • usage: "each club played six home games with teams in its own division"
  • synonyms: baseball club, ball club, nine
• A formal association of people with similar interests.
  • usage: "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
  • synonyms: social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order
• Stout stick that is larger at one end.
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "the clubhouse needed a new roof"
  • synonyms: clubhouse
• Golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball.
  • synonyms: golf club, golf-club
• A playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it.
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: cabaret, nightclub, night club, nightspot

verb

• Unite with a common purpose.
  • usage: "The two men clubbed together"
• Gather and spend time together.
  • usage: "They always club together"
• Strike with a club or a bludgeon.
  • synonyms: bludgeon
• Gather into a club-like mass.
  • usage: "club hair"