Klan

See also: klan, klán, and klän

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ellipsis of Ku Klux Klan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klæn/
  • (file)
  • Homophone: clan
  • Rhymes: -æn

Proper noun

the Klan

  1. Ku Klux Klan
    • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 745:
      The soldiers made arrests right and left, swearing to wipe out the Klan if they had to put every white man in Atlanta in jail.
    • 2005, “We Major”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Really Doe and Nas:
      I ain't in the Klan, but I brought my hood with me

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German

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

Klan m (strong, genitive Klans, plural Klans)

  1. Alternative spelling of Clan

Declension

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