Nightclub Meaning
/ˈnʌɪtklʌb/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA public or private establishment that is open late at night to provide entertainment, food, drink, music or dancing.
nounA strip club.
Sentence Examples
The tourists were ripped off at the nightclub.
Tom works as a bouncer in a nightclub.
CEFR Practice Quiz
On Saturday evening, she put on her best dress to go to the ____ with friends.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We decided to go to a popular ____ to enjoy some live music and dancing.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts Proto-Germanic *nahts Proto-West Germanic *naht Proto-West Germanic *nahti Old English niht Middle English nyght English night Proto-Germanic *klumpô Old Norse klubbabor. Middle English clubbe English club English nightclub From night + club.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"They respond instantly to the faintest rustling in the covert of a sheaf of Ulysses S. Grants, or the homely, rustic tinkle of a wheelbarrow full of rubies being jounced along over a nightclub floor."
— 1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, page 22:
"EARLY this summer, Joshua J. Pelton decided that he was meant to live in Orlando, Fla. So he quit his sales job in Detroit, packed his car with all the belongings that fit, put the rest in storage, and drove southeast daydreaming about sundrenched winters and packed nightclubs."
— 2007 September 6, Lisa Belkin, “What Do Young Jobseekers Want? (Something Other Than the Job)”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
"This is a country where nightclubs in Thimbu, the capital, throb with techno music, but where smoking is illegal and television did not arrive until 1999."
— 2008 March 21, Tim Sullivan, “Bhutanese reluctantly stepping into world of democracy”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2013:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
On Saturday evening, she put on her best dress to go to the ____ with friends.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We decided to go to a popular ____ to enjoy some live music and dancing.