Noun

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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

Noun

(en noun)

(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.

A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain

Any association of people behaving clannishly.

(video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.

A badger colony.