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Clan logo #10101) Auel subject 2) Auel title word 3) Big brood 4) Big family 5) Blood relations 6) Blood relatives 7) Braveheart band 8) Braveheart group 9) Brood 10) Campbells 11) Celtic family 12) Celtic family group 13) Celtic group 14) Certain reunion group 15) Clique or family 16) Close-knit families 17) Close-knit group
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Clan logo #10101) Bigfamily 2) Familial 3) Family 4) Folks 5) Genealogic 6) Genealogical 7) Genealogy 8) Mishpachah 9) Mishpocha 10) Party 11) Sect 12) Totem 13) Tribe
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Clan logo #21000 A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor. The kinship-based bonds may be symbolical, whereby the clan shares a `stipulated` common ancestor that is a symbol of the clan`s unity. When this `ancesto...
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Clan logo #21000[African Great Lakes] In the African Great Lakes region, the clan is a unit of social organisation. It is the oldest societal structure in the region, other than family and direct lineage. The structure is found in modern-day Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda. == Etymology == The term clan was first used in the nineteenth century by Euro...
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Clan logo #21000[car] The Clan Crusader is a fibreglass monocoque British sports car based on running gear from the Hillman Imp Sport, including its Coventry Climax derived, rear-mounted 875 cc engine. It was first made in Washington, Co Durham, England between 1971 and 1974, but since then several efforts have been made to bring the car back to production...
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Clan logo #21000[video gaming] In computer and video gaming, a Clan, Guild or Faction is an organized group of players that regularly play together in particular (or various) multiplayer games. Some people might say that a `clan` or `guild` becomes like a family, and that all opinions and decisions represent each single member in the `clan` or `guild`. The...
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Clan logo #21002• (n.) 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. • (n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.Clan: words in t...
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clan logo #21003kinship group of fundamental importance in the structure of many societies. Membership of a clan is socially defined in terms of actual or purported ... [24 related articles]
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Clan logo #21373A kin group one or more generations larger than a family, and whose members are close in time and usually place.
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Clan logo #23465A pod or social unit of dolphins.
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clan logo #20688Social grouping based on kinship. Some traditional societies are organized by clans, which are either matrilineal or patrilineal, and whose members must marry into another clan in...
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Clan logo #20972Clan (klăn) noun [ Gael. clann offspring, descendants; akin to Ir. clann , cland , offspring, tribe, family; perhaps from Latin plania scion, slip, cutting. Confer Plant , noun ] 1. A tribe or collection of families, united under...
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Clan logo #21217A Clan (Gaelic for a tribe or family), among the Highlanders of Scotland, consisted of the common descendants of the same progenitor, under the patriarchal control of a chief, who represented the common ancestor. The name of the clan was frequently formed of that of the original progenitor with the affix mac (son): thus the MacDonalds were the sons...
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clan logo #23140Borrowed from Gaelic clann (family, stock, off-spring).
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clan logo #21221Social grouping based on kinship. Some traditional societies are organized by clans, which are either matrilineal or patrilineal, and whose members must marry into another clan in order to avoid in-breeding. Familiar examples are the Highland clans of Scotland. Theoretically each clan is descended from a single ancestor from whom the name is de...
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Clan logo #21649A group of vampires who share certain mystic and physical characteristics.
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clan logo #21199a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the Mackenzie clan. · a group of people of common descent; family: Our whole clan got together for Thanksgiving. · a group of people, as a clique, set, society, or party, esp. as united by some common trait, char...
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clan logo #21751A group whose members are descended in the male line from a putative common male ancestor (patriclan) or in the female line from a putative common female ancestor (matriclan). Clans may be divided into subclans organized on the same principle or into lineage ( q.v. ) groups believed to be linked by descent from a remote common ancestor.
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clan logo #23665 group of people related by blood or marriage
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