Usually means: Family group with common ancestry.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word clan:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. clan: Merriam-Webster
  2. clan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clan, clan: Wordnik
  7. clan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. clan: Wiktionary
  9. clan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clan: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Clan, clan: Dictionary.com
  13. clan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Clan (African Great Lakes), Clan (TV channel), Clan (TV series), Clan (car), Clan (computer gaming), Clan (disambiguation), Clan (video games), Clan (video gaming), Clan, The Clan (composers), The Clan (film), The Clan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clan: Rhymezone
  19. Clan (m), clan, clan, clan, clan (m) (cossais): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. clan: FreeDictionary.org
  22. clan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. clan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. clan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Clan (family), clan: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. clan: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. Clan (family), clan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clan: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Clan: Africa Glossary
  4. CLAN: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. CLAN: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  3. clan: Anthropological Terms
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Clan, The Clan, clan: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
noun:  A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
noun:  Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
noun:  (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
noun:  A badger colony.

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