Synonyms for clan
klænclan

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. clan

   A class is a number or body of persons or objects having common pursuits, purposes, attributes, or characteristics. A caste is hereditary; a class may be independent of lineage or descent; membership in a caste is supposed to be for life; membership in a class may be very transient; a religious and ceremonial sacredness attaches to the caste, as not to the class. The rich and the poor form separate classes; yet individuals are constantly passing from each to the other; the classes in a college remain the same, but their membership changes every year. We speak of rank among hereditary nobility or military officers; of various orders of the priesthood; by accommodation, we may refer in a general way to the higher ranks, the lower orders of any society. Grade implies some regular scale of valuation, and some inherent qualities for which a person or thing is placed higher or lower in the scale; as, the coarser and finer grades of wool; a man of an inferior grade. A coterie is a small company of persons of similar tastes, who meet frequently in an informal way, rather for social enjoyment than for any serious purpose. Clique has always an unfavorable meaning. A clique is always fractional, implying some greater gathering of which it is a part; the association breaks up into cliques. Persons unite in a coterie through simple liking for one another; they withdraw into a clique largely through aversion to outsiders. A set, while exclusive, is more extensive than a clique, and chiefly of persons who are united by common social station, etc. Circle is similar in meaning to set, but of wider application; we speak of scientific and religious as well as of social circles.

   Synonyms:
   association, caste, circle, class, clique, club, company, coterie, grade, order, rank, set

   Preposition:
   A class of merchants; the senior class at (sometimes of) Harvard; the classes in college.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.6 / 7 votes

1. kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribenoun

   group of people related by blood or marriage

   Synonyms:
   kin, kindred, kinsperson, tribe, family, federation of tribes, folk, kinship group, kin group

Matched Categories

1. • Social Group

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. clannoun

   Synonyms:
   race, tribe, family

2. clannoun

   Synonyms:
   CLIQUE, COTERIE, set, gang, brotherhood, fraternity, sodality

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "clan":

   flock, tribe, herd, takemikazuchi, coven, tribal, posse, family, vampire

Suggested Resources

1. CLAN

   What does CLAN stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the CLAN acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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How to use clan in a sentence?

1. Jane Howard:

   Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

2. Mark Levin:

   Ironically, the Emoluments Clause that they used to talk about what Donald Trump has as its purpose to prevent this sort of thing where somebody who becomes president or other people in the family are basically paid off or invested in … by a foreign government. [ The Founders ] had great fear about this sort of thing, $ 31 million pours into the Joe Biden family and Joe Biden doesn't know anything about it. He is the the head of the Joe Biden clan.

3. Thomas Lockley:

   Oda's head couldn't fall into someone else's hands. Yasuke's job was to keep the clan power.

4. Victor Cha:

   Clearly, an effort to slow-track her on to becoming somebody who is important within the system, there really aren't many bodies left to carry on the sort of Kim clan rule.

5. Mark Zaid:

   One, Trump could resign as president. Two, he could sell the property -- and not selling his interest to his kids. Three, the whole Trump clan could shut the hotel down entirely.