A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship [1] and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, a clan may claim other descent from a founding member or apical ancestor who …

Dec 5, 2016 · The meaning of CLAN is a Celtic group especially in the Scottish Highlands comprising a number of households whose heads claim descent from a common ancestor. How to use clan in a …

Idiom a/the gathering of the clans (Definition of clan from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Clan, kin group used as an organizational device in many traditional societies. Membership in a clan is traditionally defined in terms of descent from a common ancestor.

clan (klæn) n. 1. a group of families or households among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor. 2. a group of people of common descent; family: Our whole …

A clan is a group which consists of families that are related to each other. ...rival clans.

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Clan definition: a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor.. See examples of CLAN used in a sentence.

In Scottish Gaelic, cland developed the form clann, and it was from Scottish Gaelic that the word clan entered English in the 15th century, at first with reference to the clans of the Scottish Highlands.

A clan is an extended family. Your clan might include your parents and siblings, but also your cousins and second cousins, aunts and uncles, and grandparents. Families that are related to each other, …