Español
clan.
(Del ingl. clan, este del gaélico clann, hijos, descendencia, y este del lat. planta, planta, brote).
1. m. En Escocia, conjunto de personas unidas por un vínculo familiar.
2. m. Grupo predominantemente familiar unido por fuertes vínculos y con tendencia exclusivista.
Fuente: Diccionario de la Real Academia Española
English
akin to Ir. clann, cland, offspring, tribe, family; perh. from L. plania scion, slip, cutting. Cf. {Plant}, n.] 1. A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald. ``I have marshaled my clan. --Campbell. [1913 Webster] 2. A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a
body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit;
-- sometimes used contemptuously.
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Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me.
--Smolett.
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The whole clan of the enlightened among us. --Burke.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

