Associations to the word «Klan»

Wiktionary

KLAN, proper noun. Ku Klux Klan
KLAN, noun. Alternative letter-case form of Klan

Dictionary definition

KLAN, noun. A secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne