ALL meanings of clan
clan
C c - countable noun clan A clan is a group which consists of families that are related to each other. 3
- countable noun clan You can refer to a group of people with the same interests as a clan. 3
- noun clan a group of people interrelated by ancestry or marriage 3
- noun clan a group of families with a common surname and a common ancestor, acknowledging the same leader, esp among the Scots and the Irish 3
- noun clan a group of people united by common characteristics, aims, or interests 3
- noun clan an early form of social group, as in the Scottish Highlands, composed of several families claiming descent from a common ancestor, bearing the same family name, and following the same chieftain 3
- noun clan in certain primitive societies, a tribal division, usually exogamous, of matrilineal or patrilineal descent from a common ancestor 3
- noun clan a group of people with interests in common; clique; set 3
- noun clan family (sense 3) 3
- noun clan tribe, related families 1
- noun clan family, group of relatives 1
- noun clan group, society 1
- noun clan A group of close-knit and interrelated families (esp. associated with families in the Scottish Highlands). 1
- noun clan a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the Mackenzie clan. 1
- noun clan a group of people of common descent; family: Our whole clan got together for Thanksgiving. 1
- noun clan a group of people, as a clique, set, society, or party, especially as united by some common trait, characteristic, or interest: a clan of actors and directors. 1
- noun clan 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. 1
- noun clan (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief. 0
- noun clan A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain. 0
- noun clan Any association of people behaving clannishly. 0
- noun clan (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games. 0
- noun clan A badger colony. 0