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clan

noun
/klæn/

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.

  1. derived from planta
  2. derived from plant
  3. derived from cland
  4. borrowed from clann
  5. borrowed from clann

Definitions

  1. A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially…

    A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.

  2. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common…

    A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.

  3. Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.

    • Holonym: nation
    • Near-synonym: canton (uncommon outside of certain dialects)
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.

    2. A badger colony.

The neighborhood

Derived

clan control, clan endogamy, clanfellow, clanless, clan mate, clanmate, clannish, clannism, clannist, clanny, clansfolk, clanship, clansman, clanspeak, clansperson, clanswoman, interclan, intraclan, Klan, Ku Klux Klan, matriclan, multiclan, patriclan, subclan

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at clan. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at clan. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at clan

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA