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Another word for clan

clan Synonyms

clan

n.

group, tribe, house, moiety; see class 2, clique, family 1, race 2, tribe.

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Another word for clan

noun

A group of people sharing common ancestry:

family, house, kindred, lineage, stock, tribe. Idioms: flesh and blood, kith and kin. See kin

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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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