A clan is an extended family. Your clan might include your parents and siblings, but also your cousins and second cousins, aunts and uncles, and grandparents.
A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname;
Noun
group of people related by blood or marriage
n.
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.
n.
A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body
of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used
contemptuously.
Clan
Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me.
The whole clan of the enlightened among us.
A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname;
Usage Examples
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
Misspelled Formclan, xclan, dclan, fclan, vclan, clan, xlan, dlan, flan, vlan, lan, cxlan, cdlan, cflan, cvlan, c lan, cklan, colan, cplan, c:lan, ckan, coan, cpan, c:an, clkan, cloan, clpan, cl:an, clqan, clwan, clsan, clzan, clqn, clwn, clsn, clzn, claqn, clawn, clasn, clazn, clabn, clahn, clajn, clamn, cla n, clab, clah, claj, clam, cla , clanb, clanh, clanj, clanm, clan .
Other Usage ExamplesTraditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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