Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

final club

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English

Syllables: fi-nal -club
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An undergraduate social club at Harvard College.

Etymology

Harvard used to have a variety of clubs for freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, with students of different years being in different clubs, and the "final clubs" were so named because they were the last social club a person could join before graduation.

Inflected Forms

final clubs (plural)

Questions

What does final club mean?: An undergraduate social club at Harvard College.
Where does final club come from?: Harvard used to have a variety of clubs for freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, with students of different years being in different clubs, and the "final clubs" were so named because they were the last social club a person could join before graduation.

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