Clan

(n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.

(n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

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• Very far they rode that night, and in the morning he stopped outside the lands of his clan, and dismounted beside a sandy river. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The little state was ruled by a family, the Sakya clan, of which this man, Siddhattha Gautama, was a member. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Siddhattha was his personal name, like Caius or John; Gautama, or G?tama, his family name, like C?sar or Smith; Sakya his clan name, like Julius. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mrs. Welland exclaimed when her mother's last plan was hinted to her; and from this unthinkable indecency the clan recoiled with a collective shudder. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• This IS a gathering of the clans. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Man was now living in clans and tribal communities. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Some of the chief Rajput clans of to-day in Rajputana in North India are descended, it is said, from these White Huns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These clans and communities clashed; they took each other's grazing land, they sought to rob each other; there began a new thing in human life, _war_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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