Synonyms for klan
klænklan

Princeton's WordNet

1. Ku Klux Klan, Klan, KKKnoun

   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

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1. • Secret Society
   • Terrorist Organization

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1. KLAN

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1. Jan Morgan:

   I’m not going to let a Nazi shoot in here, or a Ku Klux Klan member in here, either.

2. Scott Walter:

   They deserve praise because they used the law to hurt the Klan -- a lot, but as often happens in the charity world, it concocts new ways to keep donations flowing.

3. Dion Garcia:

   It was crazy, a lot of us were trying to break it up. This was not necessary, they should've just let the Klan protest. This is America, we have free speech.

4. Douglas Smith:

   Up until the Klu Klux Klan thing, he had been doing pretty well, he oozes this appearance that everybody can fly in a gold jet and have a mansion. I think it’s his signature charisma.

5. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva:

   The main problem nowadays is not the folks with the hoods, but the folks dressed in suits, the more we assume that the problem of racism is limited to the Klan, the birthers, the tea party or to the Republican Party, the less we understand that racial domination is a collective process and we are all in this game.