noun

club

Translation

club, association, bat, nightclub

I joined the school's chess club.

They went to a club to dance all night.

The caveman carried a large wooden club.

He played the ace of clubs.

((a club)) an association of people She is in the book club.

((a club)) a nightclub Let's go to a club on Saturday.

((a club)) a heavy stick He threatened me with a club.

((the ace of clubs)) a playing card suit I have the ten of clubs.

association, society, group (for organization); bat, stick (for weapon)

From Old Norse 'klubba', meaning a heavy stick or cudgel. The sense of a group of people 'clubbing together' came later.

Imagine cavemen with clubs (weapons) 'clubbing together' to form the first club (group). This links the two main meanings.