clan

nounfamily, clique

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Synonyms for clan

noun family, clique

Antonyms for clan

individual

More words related to clan

association

noun. group with common interest or pursuit

associations

noun. group with common interest or pursuit

circle

noun. group of close friends, associates

Word Origin & History

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."

Example Sentences for clan

He was the chieftain of a clan that spread over Down and Antrim.

It was like being the head of a clan, the General told himself, and he liked it.

Kautsky says that in primitive man the child belongs to the clan; but this is an error.

In the anthropoid ape we already find the family, but not the clan.

At no period of human existence has family life been replaced by clan life.

At this moment the clan of retired oil and almond dealers arrived.

But am I not nearer Truth for not being caged in a creed or a clan?

Either he or his father had been a member of the Clan na Gael.

This he knew was the sign of the clan to which the dwellers in that wigwam belonged.

But in spite of this prophecy, the Chief of Clan Ivor it was.

clan

Synonyms for clan

Antonyms for clan

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affiliation

affiliations

association

associations

brotherhood

circle

class

classes

clique

clan

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Synonyms for clan

affiliation