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Clan

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1425, OED Evaluation: N/A

A number of persons claiming descent from a common ancestor, and associated together; a tribe.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And um one of- Douglas-McLean, he's dead, was a schoolteacher, he was very active back in the sixties I guess it would've been when Dame-Fiona was the chief of Clan-McLean.
A number of persons claiming descent from a common ancestor, and associated together; a tribe.
ExampleMeaning
I would say the Matheson clan has lived in this area and- and farmed and worked for probably the last a-hundred-and-fifty-years.
A number of persons claiming descent from a common ancestor, and associated together; a tribe.
ExampleMeaning
But going to the parents', we visited them regularly. Every Sunday you would visit, um, the whole clan.
Large family