club

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" unite with a common purpose

"The two men clubbed together" gather and spend time together

"They always club together" strike with a club or a bludgeon gather into a club-like mass

"club hair"

This article is about clubs referring to a particular organization of people. For other article subjects named club see club !(disambiguation).''cleanup-dat eSeptember 2005 A club is an association of people not united together by any natural ties of kinship, real or supposed. For modern clubs see #Modern sensebelow. Such clubs occur in all ancient states of which we have any detailed knowledge, from very early times. After people started living together in groups too big for everybody to be related to each other, there was need for men with a common interest to be able to associate despite having no ties of kinship. In modern terms, the term club has broader implications. The Service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities; there are clubs devoted to all sorts of hobbies, sports, and games, clubs for social activities, political and religious clubs, and so forth. See for example BSAC (a big British scuba diving club). ''Club'' can also refer to a nightclub or discotheque.

Ancient World - For a long description of club-like organizations in ancient Greece, see Ancient Greek clubs.
For a long description of club-like organizations in the Roman Empire, see Roman clubs.

England -

18th century Origins - The word "club," in the sense of an association to promote good-fellowship and social intercourse, only became common in England at the time of ''Tatler'' and ''The Spectator (1711)The Spectator'' (1709‑1712). It is doubtful whether its use originated in its meaning of a knot of people, or from the fact that the members "clubbed" together to pay the expenses of their meetings. The oldest English clubs were merely informal periodic gatherings of friends for the purpose of dining or drinking together. Thomas Occleve (in the time of Henry IV) mentions such a club called La Court de Bone Compaignie, of which he was a member. John Aubrey (writing in 1659) says: "We now use the word clubbe for a sodality in a tavern.". For a long time, most organtations called "clubs" were gentlemen's clubs (in particular London clubs), but with the modern age the word usage has spread and many workman's organizations have imitated the club type of organization.Of early clubs the most famous was the Bread Street or Friday Street Club, originated by Sir Walter Raleigh, and meeting at the Mermaid Tavern. Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden and Donne were among the members. Another such club was that which met at the Devil Tavern near Temple Bar; and of this Ben Jonson is supposed to have been the founder.

Coffee Houses - With the introduction of coffee-drinking in the middle of the 17th century, clubs entered on a more permanent phase. The coffee-houses of the later Stuart period are the real originals of the modern club-house. The clubs of the late 17th and early 18th century type resembled their Tudor dynastyTudor forerunners in being oftenest associations solely for conviviality or literary coteries. But many were confessedly political, e.g. The Rota, or Coffee Club (1659), a debating society for the spread of republican ideas, broken up at the Restoration, the Calves Head Club (c. 1693) and the Green Ribbon Club (1675). The characteristics of all these clubs were:-#No permanent financial bond between the members, each man's liability ending for the time being when he had paid his "score" after the meal.#No permanent club-house, though each clique tended to make some special coffee-house or tavern their headquarters.These coffee-house clubs soon became hotbeds of political scandal-mongering and intriguing, and in 1675 Charles II of EnglandKing Charles II issued a proclamation which ran: "His Majesty hath thought fit and necessary that coffee houses be (for the future) put down and suppressed.", because "in such houses divers false, malitious and scandalous reports are devised and spread abroad to the Defamation of his Majesty's Government and to the Disturbance of Peace and Quiet of the Realm." So unpopular was this proclamation that it was almost instantly found necessary to withdraw it, and by Anne's reign the coffee-house club was a feature of England's social life.

Social Clubs - From the 18th‑century clubs two types evolved: social and political. Social club were made up of the social elite, and became known as "Gentlemen's clubs". There are these types of clubs:-

Social and dining clubs which are permanent institutions with a fixed club-house. The London coffee-house clubs in increasing their members absorbed the whole accommodation of the coffeehouse or tavern where they held their meetings, and this became the club-house, often keeping the name of the original keeper, e.g. White's, Brooks's, Arthur's, Boodle's. The modern club, sometimes proprietary, i.e. owned by an individual or private syndicate, but more frequently owned by the members who delegate to a committee the management of its affairs, first reached its highest development in London, where the district of St James's has long been known as "Clubland"; but the institution has spread all over the English-speaking world.

Clubs which meet occasionally or periodically and often have no club-house, but exist primarily for some specific object. Such are the many purely athletic, sports and pastimes clubs, the Jockey Club, the Alpine, chess, yacht and motor clubs. Also there are literary clubs, musical and art clubs, publishing clubs; and the name of "club" has been annexed by a large group of associations which fall between the club proper and mere friendly societies, of a purely periodic and temporary nature, such as slate, goose and Christmas clubs, which do not need to be registered under the Friendly Societies Act.Clubs in England and Wales were not controlled by the licensing system until the Licencing Act 1902Licensing Act of 1902 was passed, or in Scotland until the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1903 was passed. They were passed mainly to check the abuse of "clubs" being formed solely to sell intoxicating liquors free from the restrictions of the Licensing Acts, but it applied to all clubs in England and Wales, of whatever kind, from the humblest to the most exalted Pall Mall, LondonPall Mall club. The act required the registration of every club which occupied any premises habitually used for the purposes of a club and in which intoxicating liquor was supplied to members or their guests. The secretary of every club was required to furnish to the clerk to the justices of the petty sessional division a return giving:#the name and objects of the club#the address of the club#the name of the secretary#the number of members#the rules of the club relating to:##the election of members and the admission of temporary and honorary members and of guests##the terms of subscription and entrance fee, if any##the cessation of membership##the hours of opening and closing##the mode of altering the rulesThe same particulars must be furnished by a secretary before the opening of a new club. The act imposed heavy penalties for supplying and keeping liquor in an unregistered club. The act gave power to a court of summary jurisdiction to strike a club off the register on complaint in writing by any person on any of various grounds, including.:-

If it had fewer than 25 members.

If there was frequent drunkenness on the premises.

If persons were habitually admitted as members without 48 hours' interval between nomination and admission.

If the supply of alcoholic liquor was not under the control of the members or the committee.

Other Countries - The earliest clubs on the European continent were of a political nature. These in 1848 were repressed in Austria and Germany, and later clubs of Berlin and Vienna were mere replicas of their English prototypes. In France, where the term ''cercle'' is most usual, the first was Le Club Politique (1782), and during the French Revolution such associations proved important political forces (see Jacobins, Feuillants, Cordeliers). Of the purely social clubs in Paris the most notable were The Jockey Club (1833) and the Cercle de la Rue Royale.In the United States clubs were first established after the War of Independence. One of the first in date was the Hoboken Turtle Club (1797), which still survived as of 1911.

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