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Antonyms for club together

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kluhb
Phonetic Transcription : klÊŒb

Definition of club together

Origin :
  • c.1200, "thick stick used as a weapon," from Old Norse klubba "cudgel" or a similar Scandinavian source (cf. 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. Cf. Danish klÅ‘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]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]I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. [Rufus T. Firefly]
  • Club sandwich recorded by 1899, apparently as a type of sandwich served in clubs; club soda is 1877, originally a proprietary name.
  • As in fraternize : verb associate with
Example sentences :
  • In others a sort of central core holds the segments of the club together.
  • Extract from : « The Flea » by Harold Russell
  • Sometimes three or four of them club together and form a partnership.
  • Extract from : « The History of Prostitution » by William W. Sanger
  • We must club together, we reasonable men, and put an end to the scandal.
  • Extract from : « Alone » by Norman Douglas
  • Occasionally they club together and lay siege to a monte or faro bank.
  • Extract from : « Saddle and Mocassin » by Francis Francis Jr.
  • The four of them were to motor up to her and Leslie's Club together.
  • Extract from : « The Boy with Wings » by Berta Ruck
  • We'll club together our money, though, and leave it to pay for the things, won't we?
  • Extract from : « Five Children and It » by E. Nesbit
  • Brethren, you must club together to find me work at my own price.
  • Extract from : « Essays on Political Economy » by Frederic Bastiat
  • Brethren, you must club together to find me work at your own price.
  • Extract from : « Essays on Political Economy » by Frederic Bastiat
  • There are bothies where each man makes his own food; but of course the more satisfactory plan is for them to club together.
  • Extract from : « Auld Licht Idylls » by J. M. Barrie
  • A few of us could club together and buy it, but that 144 wouldnt suit some of the boys.
  • Extract from : « Marjorie Dean High School Senior » by Pauline Lester

Synonyms for club together

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