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clan
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klæn/
- Rhymes: -æn
Noun
clan (plural clans)
- (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
- Coordinate term: lineage
- Hyponym: descent group
- A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
- Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
- 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
- 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
- A badger colony.
Derived terms
- clannish
- matriclan
- patriclan
Descendants
- ? Catalan: clan
- ? Dutch: clan
- ? French: clan
- ? Galician: clan
- ? German: Clan
- ? Italian: clan
- ? Portuguese: clan, clã
- ? Spanish: clan
Translations
Anagrams
- Lanc, NLCA, NaCl
Catalan
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- clan
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”).
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /kl?n/
- Hyphenation: clan
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
clan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)
- clan, kin group, esp. in relation to the Scottish Highlands or Scotland in general
- (gaming) a group of gamers playing on the same team, a clan
Descendants
- Afrikaans: clan
- ? Indonesian: klan
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan, Scottish Gaelic clann, ultimately from Latin planta, and therefore a doublet of plante.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl??/
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- clan
Further reading
- “clan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- clan
Synonyms
- (clan): tribo
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan.
Noun
clan m (invariable)
- clan
- team
- gang
Portuguese
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- Alternative spelling of clã
Romanian
Etymology
From French clan.
Noun
clan n (plural clanuri)
- clan
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan. Doublet of planta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klan/, [?klãn]
Noun
clan m (plural clanes)
- clan
clan From the web:
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extraction
English
Etymology
From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st?æk??n/
- Rhymes: -æk??n
Noun
extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)
- An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
- A person's origin or ancestry.
- 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge ?ISBN, page 144
- Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...
- 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge ?ISBN, page 144
- Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
- (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
- (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
Synonyms
- (origin, ancestry): descent, lineage
- (something extracted): extract, reduction; See also Thesaurus:decrement
Translations
Anagrams
- tetraxonic
French
Pronunciation
Noun
extraction f (plural extractions)
- extraction
Further reading
- “extraction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
extraction From the web:
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