USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A clan is an extended family. Your clan might include your parents and siblings, but also your cousins and second cousins, aunts and uncles, and grandparents. Families that are related to each other, whether through marriage or as distant cousins, are members of the same clan.

Detailed explanation-2: -clan. / (klæn) / noun. a group of people interrelated by ancestry or marriage. a group of families with a common surname and a common ancestor, acknowledging the same leader, esp among the Scots and the Irish.

Detailed explanation-3: -clan. noun. ˈklan. : a group (as in the Scottish Highlands) made up of households whose heads claim to have a common ancestor. : a group of people having a common ancestor : family.

Detailed explanation-4: -The word ‘clan’ derives from the Gaelic word ‘clann’ or ‘clanna’ for children, and describes a close-knit group of relatives.

Detailed explanation-5: -extended family | American Dictionary extended family. noun [ C ] us. /ɪkˈsten·dɪd ˈfæm·ə·li, ˈfæm·li/ a family that includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, and others in addition to parents and children.