club

• n. クラブ、社交界; ナイトクラブ; クラブ; （ポーカーの）クラブ
• vt.クラブで打つ；お金を集める
• vi. お金を集める；クラブを結成する
• adj.クラブ
• n.（クラブ）人名；（英）クラブ

PIE*gelの「積み重ねる」「塊を形成する」から。語源的にはclump, globeと同じで、もともとは大きな塊状の物体を意味し、後に短い木の棒を指すようになった。初期のポーカー?スーツが木の棒に似ていたことから名付けられたが、現在では主にフランス語の三つ葉の形で使われ、梅の花と訳されている。後に集団、すなわちクラブに由来する。

club

club: [13] The original meaning of club is ‘thick heavy stick for hitting people’; it was borrowed from Old Norse klubba. The sense ‘association’ developed in the 17th century, apparently originally as a verb. To club together seems to have been based on the notion of ‘forming into a mass like the thickened end of a club’: ‘Two such worlds must club together and become one’, Nathaniel Fairfax, The bulk and selvedge of the world 1674. Hence the noun club, which originally signified simply a ‘get-together’, typically in a tavern, but by the end of the 17th century seems to have become more of a formalized concept, with members and rules.

club (n.)

c. 1200, "thick stick used as a weapon," from Old Norse klubba "cudgel" or a similar Scandinavian source (compare Swedish klubba, Danish klubbe), assimilated from Proto-Germanic *klumbon, related to clump (n.). Old English words for this were sagol, cycgel. Specific sense of "bat used in games" is from mid-15c.

The club suit in the deck of cards (1560s) bears the correct name (Spanish basto, Italian bastone), but the pattern adopted on English cards is the French trefoil. Compare Danish kl?ver, Dutch klaver "a club at cards," literally "a clover."

The social club (1660s) apparently evolved from this word from the verbal sense "gather in a club-like mass" (1620s), then, as a noun, "association of people" (1640s).

We now use the word clubbe for a sodality in a tavern. [John Aubrey, 1659]

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Admission to membership of clubs is commonly by ballot. Clubs are now an important feature of social life in all large cities, many of them occupying large buildings containing reading-rooms, libraries, restaurants, etc. [Century Dictionary, 1902]

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I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. [Rufus T. Firefly]

Club soda is by 1881, originally a proprietary name (Cantrell & Cochrane, Dublin). Club sandwich recorded by 1899, apparently as a type of sandwich served in clubs. Club car is from 1890, American English, originally one well-appointed and reserved for members of a club run by the railway company; later of any railway car fitted with chairs instead of benches, and other amenities (1917). Hence club for "class of fares between first-class and transit" (1978).

The club car is one of the most elaborate developments of the entire Commuter idea. It is a comfortable coach, which is rented to a group of responsible men coming either from a single point or a chain of contiguous points. The railroad charges from $250 to $300 a month for the use of this car in addition to the commutation fares, and the "club" arranges dues to cover this cost and the cost of such attendants and supplies as it may elect to place on its roving house. [Edward Hungerford, "The Modern Railroad," 1911]

club (v.)

"to hit with a club," 1590s, from club (v.). Meaning "gather in a club-like mass" is from 1620s. Related: Clubbed; clubbing.

CLUB, verb (military). -- In manoeuvring troops, so to blunder the word of command that the soldiers get into a position from which they cannot extricate themselves by ordinary tactics. [Farmer & Henley]

1. The club has moved its meeting to Saturday，January 22 nd.

クラブはすでに会議の日付を1月22日、土曜日に変更した。

2.This season the club has had 73500 season-ticket holders.

今シーズン、同クラブにはシーズンチケットを持っている観客が73,500人いた。

3.People at the club think very highly of him.

クラブの人は彼に感心しています。

4.This club has grown in stature over the last 20 years.

このクラブは過去20年間で知名度を上げている。

5. "Actually, most of my tennis is at club level," he admitted.

「正直に言って、私のテニスは基本的にアマチュアレベルです」と認めた。