Clan

Noun

 * 1) A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
 * 2)  A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
 * 3) Any association of people behaving clannishly.
 * 4)  A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.

Adjectives for Clan
critical; prolific; original; feudal; clamorous; sturdy; romping; murderous; visionary; hostile; rival.

Verbs for Clan
assemble—; associate with—; connect with—; descend from—; dissolve—; father—; found—; grace—; join—; lead—; muster—; organize—; prohibit—; represent—; rule—;  trace—;   unify—;   —gathers; —marauds; —pillages; —plunders; —terrorizes.

Thesaurus
party, patriclan, people, persuasion, phratria, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, plant kingdom, position, predicament, race, rank, rating, ring, rubric, section, sept, set, settlement, shape, sly, social class, society, sort, species, stamp, station, status, stem, stirps, stock, strain, stratum, stripe, style, subcaste, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, the like of, the likes of, title, totem, tribe, type, variety, we-group, animal kingdom, ashram, band, blood, body, bracket, branch, brand, breed, brood, brotherhood, bunch, cabal, cadre, camarilla, camp, cast, caste, category, cell, character, charmed circle, circle, class, clique, closed circle, colony, color, commonwealth, commune, community, coterie, crew, crowd, deme, denomination, description, designation, division, dynasty, economic class, elite, elite group, endogamous group, estate, extended family, faction, family, feather, fellowship, folk, form, fraternity, gang, genre, gens, genus, grade, grain, group, grouping, head, heading, house, ilk, ingroup, inner circle, junta, junto, kidney, kin, kind, kindred, kinship group, label, level, line, lineage, lot, make, manner, mark, matriclan, mob, moiety, mold, nation, nature, nuclear family, number, order, outfit,

Etymology
From clann:, from  cland:, apparently from  planta:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/kl{n/}}

Derived terms

 * clannish
 * matriclan
 * patriclan

Descendants

 * German:

Translations

 * Armenian:, տոհմ
 * Old Armenian:, ,
 * Bulgarian: клан
 * Dutch: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: klano
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: клан (klan), род (rod)
 * Scottish Gaelic: clann, cinneadh
 * Serbian: zadruga, rod , svojta , bratstvo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Polish:

Noun

 * 1) clan

Synonyms

 * tribo

Noun

 * 1) clan
 * 2) team
 * 3) gang

Noun

 * 1) clan