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Translation

club (society, association)

Word origin

From English club in its society sense, which grew in seventeenth century London from the idea of people 'clubbing together'. The English word itself goes back to Old Norse klubba ('a heavy stick'); only the association sense was borrowed into Esperanto.

Origin
English
Root
club
English cognates
club

Examples

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My father is a member of a club in our town.

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Our club has more than a hundred members.

?

Do you want to come to our club?

The very first Esperanto societies called themselves , and the word still carries that sociable, meet-on-a-Tuesday flavour. It means the association only: the heavy stick is a o.

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This word is part of lesson 26.