Klan

• klan

Ellipsis of Ku Klux Klan.

• IPA^(key): /klæn/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: clan
• Rhymes: -æn

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

• Klandom
• Klansman
• Klanswoman

• Lank, lank, lkna

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• Rhymes: -aːn

Klan m (strong, genitive Klans, plural Klans)

1. alternative spelling of Clan

• The spelling Klan was deprecated in 2024 in a German spelling reform.