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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being clannish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a tendency to associate with only a select group.
  • noun a tendency to associate with only one's own clan; the propensity to display the sentiments, habits, and prejudices of one's own clan.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the state of being clannish

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun tendency to associate with only a select group

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