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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024clan /klæn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a group of families claiming descent from a common ancestor:Scottish clans.
- any family group or large family:Our whole clan gathers for Thanksgiving.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024clan (klan),USA pronunciation n. - a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor:the Mackenzie clan.
- a group of people of common descent;
family:Our whole clan got together for Thanksgiving. - a group of people, as a clique, set, society, or party, esp. as united by some common trait, characteristic, or interest:a clan of actors and directors.
- Anthropology
- the principal social unit of tribal organization, in which descent is reckoned exclusively in either the paternal or the maternal line.
- a group of people regarded as being descended from a common ancestor.
- Brit. Celtic; compare Welsh plant children
- Latin planta scion, plant, perh. directly
- Old Irish cland offspring
- Scots Gaelic clann
- late Middle English (Scots) 1375–1425
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