clan
clan is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously. Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me. Smolett. The whole clan of the enlightened among us. Burke.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abba
- ancestor
- ancestral
- ancestry
- and
- anthropogeny
- anthropography
- anthropoid
- anthropology
- anthroposophy
- being
- birth
- body
- brother
- civic
- commonalty
- commonweal
- commonwealth
- community
- consanguinity
- cosmopolitan
- cosmopolite
- creation
- creature
- dad
- dam
- descent
- earthling
- ethnography
- ethnology
- extraction
- family
- father
- fatherhood
- fathership
- fellow
- flesh
- folk
- genealogy
- general
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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