clan 音标拼音: [kl'æn]
n . 氏族,宗族,党派
氏族,宗族,党派
clan n 1 :
group of people related by blood or marriage [
synonym : {
kin },
{
kin group }, {
kinship group }, {
kindred }, {
clan }, {
tribe }]
Clan \
Clan \ (
kl [
a ^]
n ),
n . [
Gael .
clann offspring ,
descendants ;
akin to Ir .
clann ,
cland ,
offspring ,
tribe ,
family ;
perh .
from L .
plania scion ,
slip ,
cutting .
Cf . {
Plant },
n .]
1 .
A tribe or collection of families ,
united under a chieftain ,
regarded as having the same common ancestor ,
and bearing the same surname ;
as ,
the clan of Macdonald .
"
I have marshaled my clan ." --
Campbell .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A clique ;
a sect ,
society ,
or body of persons ;
esp .,
a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit ;
--
sometimes used contemptuously .
[
1913 Webster ]
Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me .
--
Smolett .
[
1913 Webster ]
The whole clan of the enlightened among us . --
Burke .
[
1913 Webster ]
141 Moby Thesaurus words for "
clan ":
animal kingdom ,
ashram ,
band ,
blood ,
body ,
bracket ,
branch ,
brand ,
breed ,
brood ,
brotherhood ,
bunch ,
cabal ,
cadre ,
camarilla ,
camp ,
cast ,
caste ,
category ,
cell ,
character ,
charmed circle ,
circle ,
class ,
clique ,
closed circle ,
colony ,
color ,
commonwealth ,
commune ,
community ,
coterie ,
crew ,
crowd ,
deme ,
denomination ,
description ,
designation ,
division ,
dynasty ,
economic class ,
elite ,
elite group ,
endogamous group ,
estate ,
extended family ,
faction ,
family ,
feather ,
fellowship ,
folk ,
form ,
fraternity ,
gang ,
genre ,
gens ,
genus ,
grade ,
grain ,
group ,
grouping ,
head ,
heading ,
house ,
ilk ,
ingroup ,
inner circle ,
junta ,
junto ,
kidney ,
kin ,
kind ,
kindred ,
kinship group ,
label ,
level ,
line ,
lineage ,
lot ,
make ,
manner ,
mark ,
matriclan ,
mob ,
moiety ,
mold ,
nation ,
nature ,
nuclear family ,
number ,
order ,
outfit ,
party ,
patriclan ,
people ,
persuasion ,
phratria ,
phratry ,
phyle ,
phylum ,
pigeonhole ,
plant kingdom ,
position ,
predicament ,
race ,
rank ,
rating ,
ring ,
rubric ,
section ,
sept ,
set ,
settlement ,
shape ,
sly ,
social class ,
society ,
sort ,
species ,
stamp ,
station ,
status ,
stem ,
stirps ,
stock ,
strain ,
stratum ,
stripe ,
style ,
subcaste ,
subdivision ,
subgroup ,
suborder ,
the like of ,
the likes of ,
title ,
totem ,
tribe ,
type ,
variety ,
we -
group
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