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Clan

Definition: Clan

Clan

Noun

1. Group of people related by blood or marriage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "clan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Clan \Clan\, noun. [from Gaelic expression clann offspring, descendants; akin to Ir. clann, cland, offspring, tribe, family; perhaps from Latin plania scion, slip, cutting. Compare to Plant, noun.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Clan

DomainDefinition

Biology & Biotechnology

A small but distinctive community of subordinate importance, composed of densely aggregated individuals of one or a few species in climax-vegetation; frequently the result of vegetative propagation. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A compositional category for classifying igneous rocks; e.g., the rhyolite-granite clan. A clan may be defined either by mineralogical or bychemical composition. Clans are subdivided into families. (references)

Slang in 1811

CLAN. A family's tribe or brotherhood; a word much used in Scotland. The head of the clan; the chief: an allusion to a story of a Scotchman, who, when a very large louse crept down his arm, put him back again, saying he was the head of the clan, and that,. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Clan

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A clan is an exogamous (or closely related) group in which membership is based on stipulated descent.

The clans of Scotland and China are two examples.

China

See also:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Clan."

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Clans (BattleTech)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Clans of BattleTech were originally part of the Star League army, but after The Ursurper brought about the downfall of the Star League, general Aleksandr Kerensky led his forces beyond the Inner Sphere, where they could not be used to wreck more destruction. From this exodus, the Clans were born.

The Clans

Clan Blood Spirit

Clan Burrock

No longer in existence.

Clan Cloud Cobra

Clan Coyote

Clan Diamond Shark

Clan Fire Mandrill

Clan Ghost Bear

Clan Goliath Scorpion

Clan Hell's Horse

Clan Ice Hellion

Clan Jade Falcon

Clan Jade Wolf

A temporary Clan, in existence a short time, when Clan Wolf was nearly absorbed into Clan Jade Falcon.

Clan Mongoose

No longer in existence.

Clan Nova Cat

Clan Sea Fox

No longer in existence.

Clan Smoke Jaguar

No longer in existence. Clan Smoke Jaguar was exterminated by a task force sent from the Inner Sphere to halt the Clan Invasion This period of BattleTech history is the background story of the computer game MechWarrior 3.

Clan Snow Raven

Clan Star Adder

Clan Steel Viper

Clan Widowmaker

No longer in existence.

Clan Wolf

Clan Wolverine

No longer in existence.

Culture

All of the Clans see warriors as the perfection of humanity. All goals in the Clans are focused upon making themselves better warriors. Clan warriors are not born, but instead created in-vitero. Such Trueborn as considered superior to the Freeborn of more natural origins.

Language

The Clans disdain the use of contractions. That is, abbreviating "Can not" to "Can't" and similar practices. They consider the use of such an example of how decadent the Inner Sphere has become. They also have their own dialect, consisting primarily of ritual words and phrases: ;"Aff": "Affirmative" ;"Neg": "Negative" ;"Quiaff": ("Query-Affirmative"?) Used to ask a rhetorical question, with the expectation of an "Aff"irmative answer. ;"Quineg": ("Query-Negative"?) Used to ask a rhetorical question, with the expectation of a "Neg"ative answer. ;"Trueborn": Someone who was born artificially, with their genes tailored towards being a better warrior. Often with a lineage of past warriors. ;"Freeborn": Someone born naturally, of random parents. ;"Freebirth": An epithet or curse. A rude way of saying "Freeborn". ;"Seyla": A word uttered only in the most sacred and respective of manners. The origin is unknown, but it works like "Amen"

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Clans (BattleTech)."

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Japanese clans

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

List of Japanese clans

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Tribe

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Viewed historically or developmentally, a tribe consists of a social formation existing before the development of, or outside of, states. Many people use the term to refer to any non-Western or indigenous society. Some social scientists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups (see clan and lineage). In some countries, such as the United States of America and India, tribes are polities that have been granted legal recognition and limited autonomy by the state.

Considerable debate takes place over how best to characterize tribes. Some of this debate stems from perceived differences between pre-state tribes and contemporary tribes; some of this debate reflects more general controversy over cultural evolution and colonialism. In the popular imagination, tribes reflect a way of life that predates, and is more " natural", than that in modern states. Tribes also privilege primordial social ties, are clearly bounded, homogeneous, parochial, and stable. Thus, many believed that tribes organize links between families (including clans and lineages), and provide them with a social and ideological basis for solidarity that is in some way more limited than that of an "ethnic group" or of a "nation". Anthropological and ethnohistorical research has challenged all of these notions.

In his 1972 study, The Notion of the Tribe, Morton Fried provided numerous examples of tribes the members of which spoke different languages and practised different rituals, or that shared languages and rituals with members of other tribes. Similarly, he provided examples of tribes where people followed different political leaders, or followed the same leaders as members of other tribes. He concluded that tribes in general are characterized by fluid boundaries and heterogeneity, are not parochial, and are dynamic.

Archeologists continue to explore the development of pre-state tribes. Current research suggests that tribal structures constituted one type of adaptation to situations providing plentiful yet unpredictable resources. Such structures proved flexible enough to co-ordinate production and distribution of food in times of scarcity, without limiting or constraining people during times of surplus.

Fried, however, proposed that most contemporary tribes do not have their origin in pre-state tribes, but rather in pre-state bands. Such "secondary" tribes, he suggested, actually came about as modern products of state expansion. Bands comprise small, mobile, and fluid social formations with weak leadership, that do not generate surpluses, pay no taxes and support no standing army. Fried argued that secondary tribes develop in one of two ways. First, states could set them up as means to extend administrative and economic influence in their hinterland, where direct political control costs too much. States would encourage (or require) people on their frontiers to form more clearly bounded and centralized polities, because such polities could begin producing surpluses and taxes, and would have a leadership responsive to the needs of neighboring states (the so-called "scheduled" tribes of the United States or of British India provide good examples of this). Second, bands could form "secondary" tribes as a means to defend themselves against state expansion. Members of bands would form more clearly bounded and centralized polities, because such polities could begin producing surpluses that could support a standing army that could fight against states, and they would have a leadership that could co-ordinate economic production and military activities.

See also cultural evolution

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tribe."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Clan

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CLAN

EnglishClean Air Society in the NetherlandsN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Clan

Synonyms: kin (n), kin group (n), kindred (n), kinship group (n), tribe (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Clan

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Assemblage

Clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association; (party).

Class

Kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.

Consanguinity

Family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood. race, stock, generation; sept; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation.

Mankind

Tribe, clan (paternity); family (consanguinity).

Party

Noun: party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band. horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan; team; tong.

Paternity

House, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Clan

English words defined with "clan": A far crychieftain, chieftan, child, clan member, clannish, Clanship, clansman, clanswomanFiery crossheadman, HighlandsIn chiefMacGregorRob Roy, Robert MacGregortotem, Totemist, tribal chief. (references)
Specialty definitions using "clan": Alaska Native villageBoar's HeadGalatiaJeff K.Left Town, LochielMacPhersonWe've had visitors.. (references)
Etymologies containing "clan": Symphyla. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Clan" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (clan), French (clan), German (clan), Italian (clan), Romanian (clan, clique, Sept, set, tribe), Spanish (clan).

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Modern Usage: Clan

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The clan still has one bachelor (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez)

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true (Babe; writing credit: George Miller)

I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod (Highlander; writing credit: Gregory Widen)

I think you know just as much as I do about this Foot Clan and I don't think you're doing anything about it. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Lyrics

I've got a clan of gingerbread men. (BIKE; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Movie/TV Titles

The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (1972)

I Clan dei due borsalini (1971)

Andy Warhol and his Clan (1970)

Le Clan des Siciliens (1969)

El Club del clan (1964)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Clan

DomainTitle

References

  • Clan Homes PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • A History of Clan Campbell (reference)

  • Clan Novel: Malkavian (reference)

  • Giovanni: Clan Novel, the Masquerade (reference)

  • The Scorpion (Legend of the Five Rings: Clan War, First Scroll) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Clan

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Photo Album: Clan

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One of the Wilkins clan going into house with water. Tally Ho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Some of the children of the Wilkins clan on corn shucking day, Tally Ho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Men of the Wilkins clan eating dinner on cornshucking day at home of Mrs. Fred Wilkins. Tallyho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Clan
 

"Huntly Castle" by Jesse Adams
Commentary: "This image is of the front of Huntly Castle in Scotland. It functioned as the main castle for the Gordon Clan. The lady of the castle employed three witches that Shakespeare may have based his three witches in Macbeth on. Note the photographer is hangi"

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Clan

SubjectTopicQuote

Children

Papua New Guinea

In the past, children were well cared for within the family and under traditional clan and village controls. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Services and health care for persons with disabilities, except for those provided by the traditional clan and family system, do not exist in several of the country's provinces. (references)

Civil Liberties

Somalia

Checkpoints manned by militiamen loyal to one clan or faction inhibited passage by other groups. (references)

Discrimination

Papua New Guinea

Extreme geographic diversity prevents any one tribe or clan from dominating the country. (references)

Palau

The Constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, race, place of origin, language, religion or belief, social status, or clan affiliation, and the Government observes these provisions. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Skirmishes and conflicts tend to be based on disputes between clans over issues such as boundaries, land ownership, injuries, and insults suffered by one clan at the hands of another; they are not ethnically based. (references)

Economic History

Liberia

There are clan chiefs, paramount chiefs, and district commissioners. (references)

Fiji

The Great Council of Chiefs (Bose Levu Vakaturaga) contains every hereditary chief, or Ratu, of a Matagali, or Fijian clan. (references)

Afghanistan

With the demise of their common enemy, the militias' ethnic, clan, religious, and personality differences surfaced, and the civil war continued. (references)

Human Rights

Somalia

Clan fighting resulted in numerous deaths during the year. (references)

Somalia

On February 1, one person was killed during renewed border clan warfare between Somaliland and Puntland. (references)

Liberia

Clan chieftains continued to use the traditional practice of trial-by-ordeal to resolve criminal cases in rural areas. (references)

Minorities

Hungary

The asylum claims came after 3 years of tensions in Zamoly between the clan and the local community over housing issues. (references)

Hungary

In 2000 47 members of a Roma clan from the village of Zamoly applied for refugee status in France and indicated their intent to file suit against the Government at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). (references)

Somalia

In most areas, members of groups other than the predominant clan are excluded from effective participation in governing institutions and are subject to discrimination in employment, judicial proceedings, and access to public services. (references)

Political Economy

Somalia

Abuse and discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities in the various clan regions persisted. (references)

Liberia

In some rural areas where the judiciary had not been reestablished, clan chieftains administered criminal justice through the traditional practice of trial-by-ordeal; authorities tacitly condoned this practice. (references)

Somalia

After the withdrawal of the last U.N. peacekeepers in 1995, clan and factional militias, in some cases supplemented by local police forces established with U.N. help in the early 1990's, continued to function with varying degrees of effectiveness. (references)

Political Rights

Somalia

In most regions, local clan leaders function as de facto rulers. (references)

Somalia

In January the Prime Minister accused Ethiopia of forcing clan elders to sign statements supporting secession of the south-west region of the country. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Leadership positions within the Government in general were restricted to the President's Mongomo clan of the Fang ethnic group and its closest supporters. (references)

Travel

Kenya

The sparsely populated northern half of Kenya is an area where there are recurrent, localized incidents of violent cattle rustling, counter-raids, ethnic conflict, tribal or clan rivalry, and armed banditry. (references)

Women

Djibouti

Violence against women normally is dealt with within the family or clan structure rather than in the courts. (references)

Worker Rights

Somalia

In 2000 the Habr Gibr clan used force against the Digil and Biyamal clans in Lower Shabelle. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Clan

"Clan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.08% of the time. "Clan" is used about 436 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.08%43213,298
Noun (proper)0.92%4175,879
                    Total100.00%436N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Clan

The following table summarizes the usage of "clan" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ClanLast name10086,679
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Clan

CountryName
United Kingdom

Clan Homes PLC

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Clan

Expressions using "clan": clan member clan paternity clan together. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "clan": clan-based, clan-dominated, Clan-na-Gael, clan-type.

Ending with "clan": inter-clan, X-clan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clan

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wu tang clan

1,135

brass clan irish plaque

40

clan of the cave bear

280

brass clan door irish plate

39

clan

205

brass clan door plate scottish

39

counter strike clan

145

clan flasks irish whisky

38

author bear cave clan

71

clan flasks scottish whisky

38

wu tang clan lyrics

70

2 clan diablo

37

clan of xymox

69

clan mug scottish thermal

37

clan ghost.htm mizz.dk

68

brass clan plaque welsh

37

clan dead goat

68

clan irish mug thermal

37

vampire clan

61

clan flasks welsh whisky

37

brass clan clock oak

46

clan name

37

brass clan clock heraldic oak

44

x clan

37

clan clock tartan welsh

44

clan mug thermal welsh

36

clan socom

44

clan gift wedding welsh

36

clan template

43

clan cs

36

star craft clan

43

brass clan plaque scottish

36

clan clock scottish tartan

42

clan gift irish wedding

35

wu tang clan picture

42

clan gift scottish wedding

35

clan runescape

42

campbell clan

35

brass clan door plate welsh

40

brass clan clock oak welsh

35
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Clan

Language Translations for "clan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

kliek (clique, coterie, junto, set). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

klan (race, Sept, stock, tribe), fis (good and rich stock, kin, kinsman, name, nation, phratry, relative, rich lord family, stock, tribe), familje (family, home, house, household, kind, kinsfolk, lineage, name, people, phratry, stock). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قبيلة (horde, tribe), ‏زمرة (clique, coterie, faction, group, knot, pack, party, squad), ‏عشيرة (family, horde, kin, kindred, nation, tribe), ‏جماعة (association, band, body, cluster, cohort, company, connection, connexion, corporation, drove, gaggle, gang, group, horde, order, troupe). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

род (breed, family, gender, genus, house, kin, kind, kindred, line, manner, name, order, origin, parentage, race, rod, sort, species, stamp, stock, strain, tribe), клас (class, classification, ear, form, grade, group, notion, range, rating), клан, клика (cabal, clique, faction, ring, set, tribe), група (assortment, band, bandwagon, batch, body, category, cluster, cohort, crowd, gang, group, knot, party, series, set, society, squad, stirps, suite, troop), вид (air, appearance, aspect, blush, breed, cast, class, complexion, demeanor, demeanour, description, form, genre, genus, grade, guise, kidney, kind, likeness, look, manner, mien, mode, nature, order, persuasion, presence, race, shape, show, similitude, sort, species, strain, stripe, style, taxon, type, variety, view), партия (game, lap, match, part, party, side), племе (rod, spawn, tribe). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

氏族 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

rod (ancestry, gender, generation, genus, kin, parentage, species, stock, tribe), klan. (various references)

   

Danish

  

klan. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

volksstam (ethnic group, race, tribe), stam (ethnic group, race, radical, root, stem, tree-trunk, tribe, trunk), geslacht (ethnic group, generation, house, race, sex, tribe). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

klano. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

partalag, ættarbólkur (ethnic group, race, tribe). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

قبیله (Caste, Phylum, Tribe), طایفه (Nation, Phyle, Race, Tribe), خانواده (Family, Household, Ilk, Nation), خاندان (Family, House). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

heimo (family, race, tribe). (various references)

   

French

  

clan, tribu. (various references)

   

German

  

sippe (ethnic group, family, kin, kinship group, race, series, tribe), stamm (ethnic group, permanent staff, permanent workforce, phylum, race, regular customers, regular team-members, regulars, root, stem, strain, tribe, troop, trunk), klan (klan). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σόι (family, race), σωι, φυλή (race, tribe), φατρία (clique, faction, party), οικογένεια (family, household, kin, pedigree). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משפחה (family, household, kin, kindred, nation, species), שבט (baton, family, rod, sceptre, stick, tribe), בית אב (basis, family, origin, paternal home). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

klán. (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

kynþáttur (ethnic group, race, tribe). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kaum. (various references)

   

Italian

  

clan. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

部族  (house, tribe), 部族 (house, tribe), 閥族 (clique), (clique, faction), 閨閥 , 氏族 (family), クラフト紙 (cleaner, cleaning, cleek, club, club face, club head, club sandwich, clubhouse, crab, craft paper, cranberry, crank, cream, cream sauce, cream sundae, cream-filled roll, Creap, creek, creeping inflation, diseased persons, dry cleaning, finish shooting, icecream soda, Kleene, laundry service, startfilming), 一門 (dependents, household, kin, the family), 一味 (a gang, a tinge, a touch, an ingredient, conspirators, unique or peculiar flavor). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しぞく (branch family, family, family or person with samurai ancestors, tribe), ぶぞく (assign to sections, division, house, tribe), ばつぞく (clique), ばつ (attack, clique, faction, penalty, punish, punishment, strike), いちもん (a question, dependents, household, kin, one mon, something insignificant, the family), いちみ (a gang, a tinge, a touch, an ingredient, conspirators, gang, partisans), クラン , けいばつ (extraordinarily excellent, judgement, penalty, punishment, scintillating). (various references)

   

Manx

  

clein (breed, family, ilk, lineage, tribe). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anclay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

tribo (ethnic group, folk, race, tribe), clã (sept). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

clicã (cabal, clique, faction, gang, junto, pack, parcel, set, squad), clan (clique, Sept, set, tribe), gaşcã (bunch, caboodle, clique, coterie, pack). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

клан (tribe). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

clann (children), cinneadh (kin, tribe), cineal (offspring, species), treubh (a tribe, family, tribe), sìol (descendants, seed, spawn or fry of fish), fine (a tribe, kindred, tribe), dream (a tribe, family, folk, race, tribe). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pleme (phylum, tribe), klan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

clan. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stam (counterfoil, family, stem, stock, tribe, trunk), klan. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zümre (category, class, coterie, set), oymak (bore, boy-scout troop, carve, cave, cave in, chase, chisel, cut, engrave, etch, excavate, gouge, gouge out, grave, hollow, hollow out, incise, recess, scoop out, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, trace over, tribe), klan (clannish), kabile (clannish, tribal, tribe), grup (band, batch, body, bunch, category, class, clump, clutch, ensemble, gang, group, party, push, series, set), boy (bulk, height, length, linear measurement, size, stature, tribe). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

tire (tribe), taяpa (tribe). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

рід (ancestry, breed, brood, gender, genus, kind, kindred, lineage, name, nature, order, specie, species, stem, stock, type), компанія (bevy, company, crowd, outfit, party, room), кліка (clique, combination, junta, junto, push), клан (phratry), об'єднуватися в групу, братія (brethren), плем'я (phratry, tribe). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thị tộc bè đảng, phe cánh. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ciwdod (nation, tribe), llwyth (burden, load, tribe). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Clan

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

familia, familiae, familiam, familiarum, familias, familiis, gens, gente, gentem, gentes, genti, gentibus, gentis, gentium, planta. (various references)

Avestan200-600

cithra, vîs-2. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Clan

Derivations

Words beginning with "clan": clandestine, clandestinely, clandestineness, clandestinenesses, clandestinities, clandestinity, clang, clanged, clanger, clangers, clanging, clangor, clangored, clangoring, clangorous, clangorously, clangors, clangour, clangoured, clangouring, clangours, clangs, clank, clanked, clanking, clankingly, clanks, clannish, clannishly, clannishness, clannishnesses, clans, clansman, clansmen. (additional references)

Words ending with "clan": interclan, subclan. (additional references)

Words containing "clan": nonclandestine, subclans. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Clan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caan, Calan, calen, calon, c'an, cann, ccan, cean, Ceann, Celan, Cellan, cfla, chan, cian, cla, Clac, Clai, clain, cland, clane, clann, Clanny, clano, clarn, clau, clav, clawn, clax, clen, clenh, clent, cleon, clewn, Cleyn, clin, clirn, clon, clonb, cluny, clwan, clyn, cnan, coan, Collan, cpan, ctan, cuan, cylon, Eclanum, ilan, klan, klon, slan, tlan, vlan. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Clan"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "clan" (pronounced kla"n)
3-l a" nflan, Moulin, plan.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Clan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-l-n"

-1 letter: can, lac.

-2 letters: al, an, la, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-l-n"
 

+1 letter: canal, clang, clank, clans, clean, lance, linac.

 

+2 letters: alnico, anlace, blanch, calkin, callan, canals, cancel, candle, canful, cannel, canola, cantle, canula, caplin, carlin, carnal, catlin, cental, clangs, clanks, claxon, cleans, clinal, clonal, cuneal, enlace, falcon, flacon, glance, glucan, glycan, inlace, lacing, lacuna, lacune, lanced, lancer, lances, lancet, launce, launch, linacs, lochan, lunacy, nuchal, oilcan, planch, tincal, uncial, unclad, unlace.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Frequency
12. Names: Company Usage
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Abbreviations
18. Acronyms
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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