Clad vs Clan - What's the difference?
clad | clan |
To clothe.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
To cover with insulation.
(clad)
(archaic) (clothe)
(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.
As a verb clad
is to clothe.As a noun clan is
a group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.clad
English
Verb
- The horse was clad with its best blanket.
- But what interested me most was the slender figure of a dainty girl, clad only in a thin bit of muslin which scarce covered her knees--a bit of muslin torn and ragged about the lower hem.
