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Definition of Clans
1. clan [n] - See also: clan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clans
Literary usage of Clans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Primitive Family in Its Origin and Development by Carl Nicolai Starcke (1889)
"WE find in North America very marked forms of clans which are ... and in that
country as well as in Australia the clans are exogamous; that is, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"Totem clans and Star Worship. By GEORGE ST. CLAIR, FGS The author defines totem
as the crest of a clan, and enumerates briefly the features of the ..."
3. The Washington Conference by Raymond Leslie Buell (1922)
"The real Government was directed by a Shogunate, the successful leader of one of
the many feudal clans whose lands formed the basis of the Empire. ..."
4. The History of Modern Europe: And a View of the Progress of Society from the by William Russell (1837)
"The heads of many of those clans which had formed the grand support of the ...
The chief of the Macdonalds, the most numerous of the Jacobite clans, ..."
5. Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban by William Forbes Skene (1880)
"THE clans AND THEIR GENEALOGIES. the Highlands in tion of a great part of his
territories to the crown, finally state of THE forfeiture of the last Lord of ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Thus the Dieri in South Australia are divided into two phratries, euch of which
includes under it sixteen totem clans, (Caterpillar, Mullet, Dog, Rat, ..."
7. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"Some of these clans are said to be descended from the ... They are divided into
clans, each of which keeps apart in villages of its own, under a hereditary ..."
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