nightclub

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See also: night club

Englisch

Etymology

From night +‎ club.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnʌɪtklʌb/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Nomen

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nightclub (plural nightclubs)

  1. A public oder privat establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music oder dancing.
    Hypernym: club
  2. (Philippines) A strip club.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

nightclub (third-person singular simple present nightclubs, present participle nightclubbing, simple past and past participle nightclubbed)

  1. (informal, transitive, intransitive) To visit a nightclub (or nightclubs) for entertainment.
    Our first night in the big city we went out nightclubbing. The next morning we stayed in hung over.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English nightclub.

Pronunciation

Nomen

nightclub m (plural nightclubs or nightclubes)

  1. nightclub

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.