Society vs. Club — What's the Difference?

A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent of members.

An association dedicated to a particular interest or activity

The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community

An organization constituted to play matches in a particular sport

An organization or club formed for a particular purpose or activity

A nightclub playing fashionable dance music

The situation of being in the company of other people

A heavy stick with a thick end, used as a weapon

The totality of people regarded as forming a community of interdependent individuals

One of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black trefoil.

A group of people broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture

Combine with others so as to collect a sum of money for a particular purpose

An organization or association of persons engaged in a common profession, activity, or interest

Go out to nightclubs

The wealthy, socially dominant members of a community. Also called high society.

Beat (a person or animal) with a club or similar implement

Companionship; company

A stout heavy stick, usually thicker at one end, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.

(Biology) A colony or community of organisms, usually of the same species

An implement used in some games to drive a ball, especially a stick with a protruding head used in golf.

(countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.

Something resembling a club.

(countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.

A black figure shaped like a trefoil or clover leaf on certain playing cards.

(countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.

A playing card with this figure.

(uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.

Clubs (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

(uncountable) High society.

A group of people organized for a common purpose, especially a group that meets regularly

A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.

The building, room, or other facility used for the meetings of an organized group.

The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

(Sports) An athletic team or organization.

Connection; participation; partnership.

A nightclub.

A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

To strike or beat with a club or similar implement.

The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

To use (a firearm) as a club by holding the barrel and hitting with the butt end.

Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

To gather or combine (hair, for example) into a clublike mass.

An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

To contribute (money or resources) to a joint or common purpose.

A formal association of people with similar interests;

To join or combine for a common purpose; form a club.

The state of being with someone;

To go to or frequent nightclubs

The fashionable elite

An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

(archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.

A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.

An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.

A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.

An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.

A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.

A playing card marked with such a symbol.

(humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.

A club sandwich.

The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.

(transitive) To hit with a club.

(intransitive) To join together to form a group.

To combine into a club-shaped mass.

(intransitive) To go to nightclubs.

(intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.

(transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.

(nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

(military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

(transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.

To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded with the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.

A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.

To beat with a club.

To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.

To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.

To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.

To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.

To drift in a current with an anchor out.

A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together;

A formal association of people with similar interests;

Stout stick that is larger at one end;

A building occupied by a club;

Golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball

A playing card in the minor suit of clubs (having one or more black trefoils on it);

A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink;

Unite with a common purpose;

Gather and spend time together;

Strike with a club or a bludgeon