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Clan vs Clanless - What's the difference?

clan | clanless |

As a noun clan

is a group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.

As an adjective clanless is

without a clan.

clan

English

(wikipedia clan)

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.

    • Derived terms

    * clannish * matriclan * patriclan

    Descendants

    * Dutch: (l) * German: (l)

    clanless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a clan.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 3, author=John Green, title=Children’s Books, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It tells the story of Melinda Sordino, a clanless outcast who barely endures her freshman year at a suburban high school, and it features one of the best young narrative voices this side of Holden Caulfield. }}