clan

Main Entry:
clan [klan]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: family, clique
Synonyms: association, band, bunch, club, coterie, crew, crowd, crush, faction, folks, gang, group, house, insiders, kinfolks, mob, moiety, organization, outfit, race, ring, sect, set, society, sodality, stock, tribe
Main Entry: association
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: group with common interest or pursuit
Synonyms: affiliation, alliance, band, bunch, circle, clan, clique, club, coalition, combination, combo, company, confederacy, confederation, congress, cooperative, corporation, crew, crowd, family, federation, fellowship, fraternity, gang, guild, hookup, league, mob, order, organization, outfit, partnership, pool, rat pack, ring, society, sodality, sorority, syndicate, tie-in, tie-up, tribe, troops, troupe, union, zoo
Main Entry: brotherhood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: association
Synonyms: affiliation, alliance, clan, clique, community, comradeship, confederacy, coterie, fellowship, fraternity, guild, kinship, league, society, union
Antonyms: sisterhood
Main Entry: circle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: group of close friends, associates
Synonyms: Mafia, assembly, bunch, cabal, camarilla, camp, clan, class, clique, club, companions, company, comrades, coterie, crew, cronies, crowd, crush, fraternity, gang, in-group, insiders, intimates, lot, mob, outfit, party, posse, ring, school, set, society, sorority
Main Entry: class
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: societal group, background
Synonyms: ancestry, birth, bourgeoisie, breed, caliber, caste, circle, clan, clique, club, company, condition, connection, coterie, cultural level, degree, derivation, descent, estate, extraction, family, genealogy, grade, hierarchy, influence, intelligentsia, league, lineage, moiety, nobility, origin, pecking order, pedigree, pigeonhole, place, position, prestige, quality, sect, social rank, source, sphere, standing, state, station, status, stock, strain, stratum, the right stuff, tier, title
Main Entry: clique
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: group of friends
Synonyms: Mafia, bunch, cabal, camarilla, camp, circle, clan, club, coterie, crew, crowd, crush, faction, gang, in-group, insiders, lobby, mob, organization, outfit, pack, posse, ring, set, society
Main Entry: company
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: crowd of people
Synonyms: aggregation, assemblage, assembly, association, band, body, circle, clan, clique, club, collection, community, concourse, congregation, convention, corps, cortege, coterie, crew, ensemble, gang*, gathering, group, horde, jungle*, league, mob*, muster, order, outfit, pack, party, retinue, ring, ruck, set, team, throng, troop, troupe, turnout, zoo
Main Entry: corporation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: business organization, usually large
Synonyms: association, bunch, business, clan, company, corporate body, crew, crowd, enterprise, gang, hookup, jungle*, legal entity, megacorp, mob, multinational, octopus, outfit, partnership, ring, shell, society, syndicate, zoo
Notes: a corporation is the name used in the United States for a business association established by one or more people who later sell shares in the corporation to investors; in a partnership, there are one or more owners who share jointly in the profits, liability
Main Entry: council
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: people assembled for purpose
Synonyms: assembly, board, body, brain trust, cabinet, chamber, clan, committee, conclave, confab, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, diet, directorate, gang, gathering, governing body, groupthink, huddle, kitchen cabinet, meet, ministry, mob, official family, outfit, panel, parliament, powwow, ring, senate, synod
Notes: counsel is 'advice, guidance' and a counsel is a lawyer; a council is a deliberative body of people assembled for some purpose and members are councillors (especially in Britain)
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