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Plural of clan

regular plural

The plural of clan is clans.

Forms of clan

Singularclan /klæn/
Pluralclans /klænz/
Countablecountable

Clans in a sentence

  • And our deepthroaters intimate that Max was friendly with many pirate clans.2018, Christopher Hinz, The Paratwa Saga: Liege-Killer, Ash Ock, and The Paratwa. From the entry deepthroater
  • In London, on Stair's proposal, it was decided to enregiment the Whig clans.2012, Andrew Lang, The History of Scotland, volume 12. From the entry enregiment
  • Larger clans, with bigger ships and more votes, form the cores of political blocs.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Government Codex entry. From the entry representative
  • In order of rank, the matricians were the pig, dog, snake, and iguana clans.1982, Ron E. Roberts, Douglas E. Brintnall, Reinventing inequality: an inquiry into society and stratification, Schenkman Books. From the entry matrician
  • Of a handful of sheng-yüan lists available, two are arranged according to local clans.1964, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China, Science Editions, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167. From the entry Hai-men

Meaning of clan

  1. noun A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
  2. noun A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
  3. noun Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.

Full definition of clan

Questions about the plural of clan

What is the plural of clan?
The plural of clan is clans.
Is clan countable?
Clan is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clan (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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