nightclub

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English

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Etymology

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From night +‎ club.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈnʌɪtklʌb/
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Noun

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nightclub (plural nightclubs)

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

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Translations

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Verb

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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

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English nightclub.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nightclub m (plural nightclubs or nightclubes)

  1. nightclub

Usage notes

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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.