About The Word Clan
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Clan
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What's The Definition Of Clan?
[n] group of people related by blood or marriage
Synonyms | Synonyms for Clan: kin | kin group | kindred | kinship group | tribe Related Terms | Find terms related to Clan: animal kingdom | ashram | band | blood | body | bracket | branch | brand | breed | brood | brotherhood | bunch | cabal | cadre | camarilla | camp | cast | caste | category | cell | character | charmed circle | circle | class | clique | closed circle | colony | color | commonwealth | commune | community | coterie | crew | crowd | deme | denomination | description | designation | division | dynasty | economic class | elite | elite group | endogamous group | estate | extended family | faction | family | feather | fellowship | folk | form | fraternity | gang | genre | gens | genus | grade | grain | group | grouping | head | heading | house | ilk | ingroup | inner circle | junta | junto | kidney | kin | kind | kindred | kinship group | label | level | line | lineage | lot | make | manner | mark | matriclan | mob | moiety | mold | nation | nature | nuclear family | number | order | outfit | party | patriclan | people | persuasion | phratria | phratry | phyle | phylum | pigeonhole | plant kingdom | position | predicament | race | rank | rating | ring | rubric | section | sept | set | settlement | shape | sly | social class | society | sort | species | stamp | station | status | stem | stirps | stock | strain | stratum | stripe | style | subcaste | subdivision | subgroup | suborder | the like of | the likes of | title | totem | tribe | type | variety | we-group See Also | clan member | clansman | clanswoman | family | family tree | family unit | folks | genealogy | relation | relative | social group | totem | Tribes of Israel | tribesman | Twelve Tribes of Israel Clan In Webster's Dictionary \Clan\, n. [Gael. clann offspring, descendants; akin to Ir.
clann, cland, offspring, tribe, family; perh. from L. plania
scion, slip, cutting. Cf. {Plant}, n.]
1. A tribe or collection of families, united under a
chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor,
and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.
``I have marshaled my clan.'' --Campbell.
2. A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a
body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit;
-- sometimes used contemptuously.
Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me.
--Smolett.
The whole clan of the enlightened among us. --Burke.
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