'Clan' definitions:
Definition of 'clan'
(from WordNet)
noun
Group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]
Definition of 'Clan'
From: GCIDE
- Clan \Clan\ (kl[a^]n), n. [Gael. clann offspring, descendants; akin to Ir. clann, cland, offspring, tribe, family; perh. from L. plania scion, slip, cutting. Cf. Plant, n.]
- 1. A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald. "I have marshaled my clan." --Campbell. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [1913 Webster]
- Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me. --Smolett. [1913 Webster]
- The whole clan of the enlightened among us. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'clan'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- animal kingdom,
- ashram,
- band,
- blood,
- body,
- bracket,
- branch,
- brand,
- breed,
- brood,
- brotherhood,
- bunch,
- cabal,
- cadre,
- camarilla,
- camp,
- cast,
- caste,
- category,
- cell,
- character,
- charmed circle,
- circle,
- class,
- clique,
- closed circle,
- colony,
- color,
- commonwealth,
- commune,
- community,
- coterie,
- crew,
- crowd,
- deme,
- denomination,
- description,
- designation,
- division,
- dynasty,
- economic class,
- elite,
- elite group,
- endogamous group,
- estate,
- extended family,
- faction,
- family,
- feather,
- fellowship,
- folk,
- form,
- fraternity,
- gang,
- genre,
- gens,
- genus,
- grade,
- grain,
- group,
- grouping,
- head,
- heading,
- house,
- ilk,
- ingroup,
- inner circle,
- junta,
- junto,
- kidney,
- kin,
- kind,
- kindred,
- kinship group,
- label,
- level,
- line,
- lineage,
- lot,
- make,
- manner,
- mark,
- matriclan,
- mob,
- moiety,
- mold,
- nation,
- nature,
- nuclear family,
- number,
- order,
- outfit,
- party,
- patriclan,
- people,
- persuasion,
- phratria,
- phratry,
- phyle,
- phylum,
- pigeonhole,
- plant kingdom,
- position,
- predicament,
- race,
- rank,
- rating,
- ring,
- rubric,
- section,
- sept,
- set,
- settlement,
- shape,
- sly,
- social class,
- society,
- sort,
- species,
- stamp,
- station,
- status,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- stratum,
- stripe,
- style,
- subcaste,
- subdivision,
- subgroup,
- suborder,
- the like of,
- the likes of,
- title,
- totem,
- tribe,
- type,
- variety,
- we-group