What Does Clan Mean?
The word Clan has its origin in Latin, and was taken from the word planta which means plant or sprout. It was then used in old Irish as cland and meant offspring. Later the Scottish gaelic adapted it as clann meaning family. This word clan generally means ‘large family’. Such a family is the one in which all the members live together at once example, ‘George, Murphy and the rest of the O’Scott Clan will be arriving’. Actually it is a group of related families especially in the Scottish highlands. Or one can say it means a tribe having common ancestors. Such a tribe is considered important in their regions. Today Clan could mean a large group of relatives, friends or even associates. Some words synonymous to clan could be family or house or tribe or kin or race or clique. Group, faction, kinfolk, elite, circle, folk, relations and gang are other words commonly used for clan.
