clansman
- noun
- /ˈklænzmən/
- This clansman had broken away from Tanum's control and was subverting the loyalties of Tanum's remaining allies.
Examples
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Tanum was engaged in a bitter political struggle with a former clansman.
Academic text (1991) -
Through prescribed acts and set forms of words, the dead chief is requickened and, in a way, reincarnated in the person of a legally chosen clansman.
Academic text (1995) -
No, I'm with the Clansman Company over at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
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And Clarence Bosch has been a clansman his entire life, as a student, then a teacher; it's the only world he's ever lived in.
Fiction book (1990) -
I turned without delay and made my way back toward the stair to the minstrels' gallery, carefully avoiding the eye of a clansman I passed.
Fiction book (1991) -
This is also done by raising up or installing a clansman of the deceased who shall bear the same official name and live in place of the dead lawgiver (Hewitt 1944: 66).
Academic text (1995) -
T. Dixon, The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan 324-326 (1905).
Academic text (1995) -
Jared Munro Fraser was a small, spare, black-eyed man who bore more than a passing resemblance to his distant cousin Murtagh, the Fraser clansman who had accompanied us to Le Havre.
Fiction book (1992) -
The clansman spoke proudly of his heritage during the gathering.
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During the festival, each clansman shared stories of their ancestors.
Synonyms
A man who belongs to a group with the same culture and way of life
A person who belongs to a group with the same family background or shared interests
A person who lives in a small community that shares the same customs
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clansman comes from the Gaelic word clann, which meant 'children' or 'family', plus the English word man. So a clansman is a 'man of the family', which is why it refers to a male member of a Scottish or Irish clan.