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clanswoman noun[ C ] uk /ˈklænzˌwʊm.ən/ us /ˈklænzˌwʊm.ən/plural-womenuk /ˈklænzˌwɪm.ɪn/ us /ˈklænzˌwɪm.ɪn/ a woman who is a member of a clan (= a group of families who originally came from the same family and have the same name): (苏格兰)宗族的女性成员 Flora MacDonald was a clanswoman who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape to Skye after the Battle of Culloden. Mr McGregor was surprised to receive a letter from an American clanswoman. Compare
clansman His clan had certain rituals to prevent young unmarried men from having contact with clanswomen. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Countries, nationalities & continents: nationalities Afghan Albanian Algerian an Andorran Ghanaian Gibraltarian Greenlander Greenlandic Grenadian non-Indian non-Russian North American North Korean Northern Irish Venezuelan Vietnamese Vincentian Virgin Islands Welshman
Examples of clanswoman clanswoman They were cool and quiet; much more so, indeed, than the respective clansmen and clanswomen. From Project Gutenberg However, it is clear that, if his daughter becomes a clanswoman, then he can no longer maintain this aloofness towards the clan. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |