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    CLAN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Group of people related by blood or marriageplay

    Synonyms:

    clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("clan" is a kind of...):

    social group (people sharing some social relation)

    Meronyms (members of "clan"):

    relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)

    clan member; clansman; clanswoman (a member of a clan)

    tribesman (someone who lives in a tribe)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clan"):

    mishpachah; mishpocha ((Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends))

    family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)

    folks (your parents)

    family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)

    totem (a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object)

    Tribes of Israel; Twelve Tribes of Israel (twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob)

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