clan
IPA: kɫˈæn
noun
- (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
- A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
- Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
- (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
- A badger colony.
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Examples of "clan" in Sentences
- Forbes estimates the clan is worth at least $4 billion.
- At this point, the whole Palin clan needs to step out of public view.
- Italy's interior minister says the six victims were members of what he calls a clan in Italy's southern region of Calabria.
- But if a culture is too tied up in clan loyalties, I doubt that North would see a transition to an open-access order as feasible.
- [Escalettes] talks of lobbying from the team of 1998, which he called a clan that was putting pressure on the selector, he is false.
- For al of the Palin clan, please don't even think about her being a President for this country because it would be just like living in Iraq.
- Name calling by the hateful open borders clan is used to silence Americans from discussing immigration and advocating the enforcement of immigration laws.
- How can you claim that a prophesy about a leader appearing from a certain clan is fulfilled by Jesus, who merely happened to be born in town that shares its name with that clan?
- Among the tribes of the Siouan family the primary unit is the clan or gens, which is composed of a number of consanguinei, claiming descent from a common ancestor and having common taboos; the term clan implying descent in the female line, while gens implies descent in the male line.
- July 13th, 2009 10: 05 am ET the more levi can tell us about the "palin clan" the better. i only hope he is telling the truth. could you imagine a reality show about that family??? yeh, me neither. it's unfortunate but republican women for the most part will listen to ANYTHING she has to say. the sad thing is they will believe what she says too.
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