book club
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- noun
- /bʊk klʌb/
:
club de lectura
- Any chance I could get you to come to the book club discussion we're having next month?
- join a book club
- a book club meeting
- book club members
Examples
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We'll go to my book club.
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Prior to joining the book club, she had very little experience with adolescent literature.
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Hey, you should come to my book club on Tuesday night.
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Well I joined this really interesting book club.
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During the first semester, the faculty book club met every two to three weeks.
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We started this book club to stimulate our minds.
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At the initial meeting of the book club group, I distributed questionnaires to all participants.
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The following year, Eileen and her students engaged in book club discussions once each semester.
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Her experience with the books was so positive that she reinitiated book clubs with her sixth-grade students.
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Joining a book club is a great way to discover new authors and meet fellow readers.
How Scholarly
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'book' (a published item) and 'club' (an association), so its basic meaning — a group or organization related to books — is directly and transparently derivable from the constituents. Although some senses emphasize purchasing discounted selections by mail/online, a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the core idea of a club about books.
Etymology
Book club comes from mail groups that picked one book and sent it to people who joined the club. Being in the 'club' meant you got that chosen book at a lower price.