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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Resembling or suggestive of a social club or clubhouse.
Congenial; welcoming people as guests.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Resembling or suggestive of a social club or clubhouse.
Exclusive and cliquey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Resembling or suggestive of a social club or clubhouse.
Resembling or characteristic of the dance music played at nightclubs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Fond of frequenting nightclubs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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adjective satellite
befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, snobbish, snobby
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adjective satellite
effusively sociable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: clubbish
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *klumpô Old Norse klubbabor. Middle English clubbe English club Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English clubby From club + -y.
