clan
noun
[ klan ]
• a close-knit group of interrelated families, especially in the Scottish Highlands.
• "the clan Macleod"
Similar:
group of families,
sept,
gens,
family,
house,
dynasty,
tribe,
line,
sib,
kinship group,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Scottish Gaelic clann ‘offspring, family’, from Old Irish cland, from Latin planta ‘sprout’.
