0 a group of families, especially in Scotland, who originally came from the same family and have the same name --
1 a family, esp. a large group of people who are related: --
Is the whole clan gathering at your house for Thanksgiving?
However, their own policies of nation-building and promoting local cadres ensured clans' survival.
They are well-known for their totemic system of social classification: animals are signs or labels for social groups such as clans and moieties.
At any rate, it is not easy to determine how much control clans had over civil disputes that involved their members.
Such groups included clans, local villages and guilds.
He was brought to the clan's compound, taken care of, and later married a woman from his hosts' family, thus founding his own lineage.
However, some territorial control existed, and was ritually organized within and between clans.
Indeed, our managers (be they of purchasing or of providing clans) now question whether they are still relevant, affordable, and important?
He knew that apprenticeships were generally reserved for the sons of papermaking clans.
