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Definition of "clubman" []

  • A man who is a member of a club or clubs, especially one who is active in club life. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "clubman" in a sentence
  • "But this is a play about class as well as sex: I had forgotten how subtly Rattigan suggests the opposing counsels inhabit the same masonic clubman's world while the accused, however innocent of the charge, is branded a corrupter of youth and a vulgar sensualist."
  • "Mostly colour coded in red and wood, all of the furniture is home made and the chair is a cobra bucket seat salvaged from an old mini clubman."
  • "Holdsworthy treated him more like a brother than a mere fellow-clubman, watching over him, advising him, and introducing him to the magnates of the local financial world."