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Another word for clan

Noun

  1. A group of people sharing common ancestry

    2. Idioms:
    See also:

    kin

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for clan

Noun
    2. See also:

    tribe

    race

    family

    clique

    class

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The rest of the clan followed without a word.

  • She was unable to identify which clan it was that captured her.

  • The account of the death and cremation of the Buddha, preserved in the Buddhist canon, states that one-eighth portion of the ashes was presented to the Sakiya clan, and that they built a thupa, or memorial mound, over it.'

  • 7 as belonging to a clan of Judah.

  • The man was as huge as any warrior but not fair like Romas's clan members.

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