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noun
1.
2.
a group of people of common descent; family: Our whole clan got together for Thanksgiving.
3.
a group of people, as a clique, set, society, or party, especially as united by some common trait, characteristic, or interest: a clan of actors and directors.
4.
Anthropology.
a.
the principal social unit of tribal organization, in which descent is reckoned exclusively in either the paternal or the maternal line.
b.
a group of people regarded as being descended from a common ancestor.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English (Scots ) < Scots Gaelic clann < Old Irish cland offspring < Latin planta scion, plant, perhaps directly < British Celtic; compare Welsh plant children
1375–1425; late Middle English (Scots ) < Scots Gaelic clann < Old Irish cland offspring < Latin planta scion, plant, perhaps directly < British Celtic; compare Welsh plant children
Related forms
clan·less, adjective
in·ter·clan, adjective
sub·clan, noun
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
clan
c.1425, from Gael. clann "family, stock, offspring," akin to O.Ir. cland "offspring, tribe," both from L. planta "offshoot" (see plant (n.)). Gaelic (Goidelic) Celtic had no initial p-, so it substituted k- or c- for L. p-.
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