Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - clan
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Clan
clan
noun Etymology: Middle English, from Scottish Gaelic ~n offspring, ~, from Old Irish ~d plant, offspring, from Latin planta plant Date: 15th century 1. a. a Celtic group especially in the Scottish Highlands comprising a number of households whose heads claim descent from a common ancestor b. a group of people tracing descent from a common ancestor ; family 2. a group united by a common interest or common characteristics
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n. 1 a group of people with a common ancestor, esp. in the Scottish Highlands. 2 a large family as a social group. 3 a group with a strong common interest. 4 a a genus, species, or class. b a family or group of animals, e.g. elephants. Etymology: ME f. Gael. clann f. L planta sprout ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) клан, род 2) содружество, община 3) микроассоциация 4) геол. химическая серия изверженных горных пород - hereditary clan ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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(clans) 1. A clan is a group which consists of families that are related to each other. ...rival clans. N-COUNT 2. You can refer to a group of people with the same interests as a clan. (INFORMAL) ...a powerful clan of industrialists from Monterrey. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n 1 a large group of families that often share the same name (the Campbell clan) 2 humorous a word meaning a large family, used especially when they are all together on a special occasion (The whole clan will be here over Christmas.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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adult abbr. Clan Of Losers And Novices religion abbr. Christians Linked Across The Nation ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- c.1425, from Gael. clann "family, stock, offspring," akin to O.Ir. cland "offspring, tribe," both from L. planta "offshoot." Gaelic (Goidelic) Celtic had no initial p-, so it substituted k- or c- for L. p-. Clannish is first attested 1776. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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