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What is a clan?

What is a clan? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
  2. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
  3. Any association of people behaving clannishly, including one's immediate family.
  4. (video game) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
  5. A badger colony.
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The whole family will be reunited in Marbella next week when the Masterson clan gathers in the villa.
They were also taken to the machair to see the famous bloodstone with which the Morrisons are reputed to have hit the Macaulays in a clan battle.
Outside the immediate family, the lineage and the clan are the most common descent groups.
At Appin, he attempted to replace his old clan rivals, the Stewarts, with his own clansmen.
The occasion was her birthday and the whole clan had gathered for the celebration.
She found the entire clan in the common room and she said down next to Chris.

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