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- 1. a group of close-knit and interrelated families (especially associated with families in the Scottish Highlands): "the clan Macleod" Similar
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The meaning of CLAN is a Celtic group especially in the Scottish Highlands comprising a number of households whose heads claim descent from a common ancestor. How to use clan in a sentence.
CLAN definition: 1. a group of families, especially in Scotland, who originally came from the same family and have…. Learn more.
noun. a group of people interrelated by ancestry or marriage. a group of families with a common surname and a common ancestor, acknowledging the same leader, esp among the Scots and the Irish. a group of people united by common characteristics, aims, or interests. Discover More.
A clan is an extended family. Your clan might include your parents and siblings, but also your cousins and second cousins, aunts and uncles, and grandparents. Families that are related to each other, whether through marriage or as distant cousins, are members of the same clan.
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, a clan may claim descent from a founding member or apical ancestor who serves as a symbol of the clan's unity. Clans, in indigenous societies, were not endogamous: their members could not marry one another.
clan in British English. (klæn ) noun. 1. a group of people interrelated by ancestry or marriage. 2. a group of families with a common surname and a common ancestor, acknowledging the same leader, esp among the Scots and the Irish. 3. a group of people united by common characteristics, aims, or interests.
CLAN meaning: 1. a group of families, especially in Scotland, who originally came from the same family and have…. Learn more.
clan, kin group used as an organizational device in many traditional societies. Membership in a clan is traditionally defined in terms of descent from a common ancestor. This descent is usually unilineal, or derived only through the male (patriclan) or the female (matriclan) line.
1. A traditional social unit in the Scottish Highlands, consisting of a number of families claiming a common ancestor and following the same hereditary chieftain. 2. A division of a tribe tracing descent from a common ancestor. 3. A large group of relatives, friends, or associates.
Definition of clan noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
