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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope