nightclub

See also: night club

English

Etymology

From night +‎ club.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʌɪtklʌb/

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• nightclub-goer

Related terms

• clubber
• clubbing
• clubgoer
• clubhouse

 

Translations

establishment that is open late at night

• Afrikaans: nagklub
• Arabic: نَادٍ لَيْلِيّ m (nādin layliyy) (indefinite), النَادِي اللَيْلِيّ m (an-nādī l-layliyy) (definite)
• Armenian: գիշերային ակումբ (gišerayin akumb)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܣܡܵܟ݂ܵܐ ܠܲܝܠܵܝܵܐ m (bēt smāḵā laylāyā)
• Azerbaijani: gecə klubu
• Belarusian: начны́ клуб m (načný klub)
• Bulgarian: но́щен клуб m (nóšten klub)
• Catalan: discoteca f, club nocturn m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夜總會／夜总会 (zh) (yèzǒnghuì), 夜店 (zh) (yèdiàn)

• Corsican: notturnu m, discuteca f, night club m
• Czech: noční klub m
• Danish: natklub c
• Dutch: nachtclub (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: amuzejo
• Estonian: ööklubi (et)
• Finnish: yökerho (fi)
• French: boîte de nuit (fr) f, discothèque (fr) f
• Galician: discoteca (gl) f
• Georgian: ღამის კლუბი (ɣamis ḳlubi)
• German: Nachtklub (de) m, Nightclub (de) m
• Hindi: रात का क्लब m (rāt kā klab), क्लब (hi) m (klab)
• Hungarian: szórakozóhely (hu), mulató (hu), bár (hu), diszkó (hu)
• Icelandic: skemmtistaður, næturklúbbur m
• Irish: club oíche m
• Italian: notturno (it) m, night club (it) m, discoteca (it) f
• Japanese: ナイトクラブ (ja) (naito kurabu)
• Kazakh: түнгі клуб (tüñı klub)
• Khmer: បារ (km) (baa), អគាររាត្រី (a’kie rietrəy), រោងរាំ (rooŋ roam)
• Korean: 나이트 클럽 (naiteu keulleop)
• Kyrgyz: түнкү клуб (tünkü klub)
• Latvian: nakts klubs m
• Lithuanian: naktinis klubas m
• Macedonian: ноќен клуб m (noḱen klub)
• Malay: kelab malam (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nattklubb m

  Nynorsk: nattklubb m

• Pannonian Rusyn: ноцни клуб m inan (nocni klub)
• Persian: باشگاه شبانه (bâšgâh-e šabâne)
• Polish: klub nocny (pl) m
• Portuguese: boate (pt) f, casa noturna (pt) f, discoteca (pt) f, clube (pt) m, balada (pt) f
• Romanian: discotecă (ro) f, club de noapte n
• Russian: ночно́й клуб m (nočnój klub), дискоте́ка (ru) f (diskotéka)
• Scots: nichtclub
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ноћни клуб m

  Roman: noćni klub m

• Sicilian: discuteca f
• Slovak: nočný klub m
• Slovene: nočni klub m
• Spanish: club nocturno m, discoteca (es) f, boliche (es) m (South America)
• Swedish: nattklubb (sv) c
• Thai: ไนท์คลับ (nái-klàp)
• Turkish: gece klübü
• Turkmen: gijeki klub
• Ukrainian: нічни́й клуб m (ničnýj klub)
• Uzbek: tungi klubi
• Vietnamese: câu lạc bộ giải trí, câu lạc bộ đêm, hộp đêm (vi)
• Welsh: clwb nos (cy) m
• Yakut: түүҥҥү кулууп (tüüññü kuluup)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaidklub/ [ˈnai̯ð̞.kluβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -aidklub
• IPA^(key): /ˈnaiklub/ [ˈnai̯.kluβ̞]
  • Rhymes: -aiklub

Noun

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.