英和和英

名詞

clubmember (plural clubmembers)

1. A member of a club.

   Synonym: clubster

   Hyponyms: clubman (dated), clubwoman (dated)

   • 1924, Charles C[rittenton] Baldwin, “Upton Sinclair”, in The Men Who Make Our Novels (Essay Index Reprint Series), revised edition, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., published 1967, section I, page 450:

     There is scarce a reviewer, scarce a clubmember, never a Tory in these United States who cannot (if he would) improve upon the work of Mr. Upton Sinclair—and this despite the fact that our clubmembers and Tories spend all of their time in thinking of themselves, while Mr. Sinclair devotes his enormous energies to puzzling out the problems they dismiss so glibly—despite the fact that Mr. Sinclair is highly regarded in Europe, where they are unknown.

   • 1942, Irene B. Munro, Winthrop M. Munro, “Building the Program”, in Handbook for Clubwomen, Clinton, S.C.: Jacobs Press, part IV (Club Program Techniques), chapter XIV (Program and Yearbook), page 178:

     At a meeting of the club in the spring devoted to the program for the following year, clubmembers make suggestions about what they will want to study. […] It is possible, too, to incorporate the interests of several clubmembers into one general subject.

   • 2005, Suzanne Desan, “The Politics of Intimacy: Marriage and Citizenship in the French Revolution”, in Sarah Knott, Barbara Taylor, editors, Women, Gender and Enlightenment, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y., →ISBN, section 9 (Women and Revolutionary Citizenship: Enlightenment Legacies?), pages 641–642:

     As clubmember Maugras laid forth the Besançon women’s plan to enlighten consciences and propagate liberty, she stated simply, ‘Raised to the heights of the Revolution, we prefer liberty and equality to all the platitudes of love.’ […] Many clubmembers and authors expressly rejected the notion that since wives had potent, seductive sway over their husbands, they had no need for legal rights within marriage.