Noun: clan
Sample Sentences
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Holonym: nation
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Near-synonym: canton (uncommon outside of certain dialects)
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As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me. [1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:]
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if the clan of badgers next door isn't marking its boundaries [2017, Stephan Price, Thinking Through Badgers, Vernon Press, page 246:]
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it might support a clan of badgers willing to share, although not necessarily to compromise, their individual food security to gain the advantage of reduced food defence costs. [2022, David Macdonald, Chris Newman, The Badgers of Wytham Woods:]
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One fascinating, but not entirely unexpected, finding from my semi-captive clan of badgers is that any aggression between the individuals builds up to a horrible crescendo if their food gets scarce. [2019, Prof. Hans Kruuk, The Call of Carnivores, Pelagic Publishing:]
Nouns inflected like clan
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta. See: Irish Nouns '
clann', Latin Nouns '
planta'.
Verbs referencing "clan"
Catalan Nouns
clan, Dutch Nouns
clan, French Nouns
clan, German Nouns
Clan, Finnish Nouns
klaani, Danish Nouns
klan, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
klan, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
klan, Portuguese Nouns
clã, Latvian Nouns
klans, Russian Nouns
клан.