| 单词 | clan |
| 释义 | clan (once / 625 pages) n 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, whether through marriage or as distant cousins, are members of the same clan. If you get together with a big family group every summer, you can say you vacation with your clan. In Scotland, a person's clan has a specific name, like "clan MacLachlan." The word comes from the Gaelic clann, "family" or "offspring," with the Latin root planta, "offshoot." WORD FAMILYclan: clannish, clans+/clannish: clannishly, clannishness USAGE EXAMPLESThese nations are bounded by mountains and forests and buttes, with embracing clans, leaders and spiritualism woven deep. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The Droz clan’s New Year’s card is more than a mere family portrait. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) And that was just some of the clan’s style news. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) n group of people related by blood or marriage Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe Bronte sisters a 19th century family of three sisters who all wrote novels Marx Brothersa family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor mishpachah, mishpocha (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) family, family unitprimary social group; parents and children folksyour parents family tree, genealogysuccessive generations of kin totema clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object Tribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israeltwelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob couple, match, matesa pair of people who live together man and wife, marriage, married coupletwo people who are married to each other ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stockthe descendants of one individual Lost Tribesthe ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin) social group people sharing some social relation |
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