'Sept' definitions:
Definition of 'Sept'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Sept'
From: GCIDE
- Sept \Sept\, n. [A corruption of sect, n.] A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland. [1913 Webster]
- The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example. --S. Lover. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sept'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affiliation,
- animal kingdom,
- apparentation,
- birth,
- blood,
- bloodline,
- bracket,
- branch,
- breed,
- brood,
- caste,
- category,
- clan,
- class,
- common ancestry,
- consanguinity,
- deme,
- derivation,
- descent,
- direct line,
- distaff side,
- division,
- estate,
- extraction,
- family,
- female line,
- filiation,
- folk,
- gens,
- grade,
- group,
- grouping,
- head,
- heading,
- house,
- kin,
- kind,
- label,
- level,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- male line,
- matriclan,
- nation,
- order,
- patriclan,
- people,
- phratry,
- phyle,
- phylum,
- pigeonhole,
- plant kingdom,
- position,
- predicament,
- race,
- rank,
- rating,
- rubric,
- section,
- seed,
- set,
- side,
- spear side,
- species,
- spindle side,
- station,
- status,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- stratum,
- subdivision,
- subgroup,
- suborder,
- succession,
- sword side,
- title,
- totem,
- tribe