clan

Meaning

1. A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
2. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
3. Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
4. A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
5. A badger colony.

Concepts

clan

family

tribe

race

kin

lineage

pedigree

ethnic group

clique

group

set

stock

parentage

people

kindred

relatives

descendant

origin

progeny

class

nationality

seed

species

village

family line

totem

household

band

party

faction

ancestor

ancestry

descent

line

kin group

kinship group

caste

herd

crowd

nation

family name

extended family

generation

surname

source

settlement

offsprings

gang

conspirators

crew

partisans

dependents

fellow

house

dynasty

extraction

posterity

succession

blood

genealogy

heredity

coterie

name

collection

flock

series

genus

line of descent

community

brotherhood

in particular

assembly

colony

kinship

enclosure

home

folk

genre

sept

kinfolk

tribal

roots

large family

kind

bunch

mob

branch

by extension

ethnicity

social group

generic name

head man

section

gens

marriage

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klæn/

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.