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Synonyms for clan

Grammar : Noun
Spell : klan
Phonetic Transcription : klæn

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Définition of clan

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Gaelic clann "family, stock, offspring," akin to Old Irish cland "offspring, tribe," both from Latin planta "offshoot" (see plant (n.)). The Goidelic branch of Celtic (including Gaelic) had no initial p-, so it substituted k- or c- for Latin p-. The same Latin word in (non-Goidelic) Middle Welsh became plant "children."
  • noun family, clique
Example sentences :
  • He was the chieftain of a clan that spread over Down and Antrim.
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • It was like being the head of a clan, the General told himself, and he liked it.
  • Extract from : « The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys » by Gulielma Zollinger
  • Kautsky says that in primitive man the child belongs to the clan; but this is an error.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • At no period of human existence has family life been replaced by clan life.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • In the anthropoid ape we already find the family, but not the clan.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • At this moment the clan of retired oil and almond dealers arrived.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • But am I not nearer Truth for not being caged in a creed or a clan?
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • Either he or his father had been a member of the Clan na Gael.
  • Extract from : « The Red Hand of Ulster » by George A. Birmingham
  • This he knew was the sign of the clan to which the dwellers in that wigwam belonged.
  • Extract from : « Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children » by Mabel Powers
  • But in spite of this prophecy, the Chief of Clan Ivor it was.
  • Extract from : « Red Cap Tales » by Samuel Rutherford Crockett

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