Klan

[klan]

noun

1. Ku Klux Klan.

2. a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

Klan

/ klæn /

noun

1. short for Ku Klux Klan

Other Word Forms

• Klanism noun

Example Sentences

That would preclude an honest rendering of the Christian nationalist foundations of the Klan and its vision of a white Protestant America.

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The Klan attempted to show the film “The Birth of a Nation” at the town’s community center in an effort to recruit new members, but their arrival led to a standoff that turned violent.

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Besides evil billionaires, Superman has taken on superpowered supervillains, alien invaders and even his clones, as well as human threats like Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.

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What we have not seen, at least since the days of the Ku Klux Klan, are unidentified, armed, masked men in groups assaulting and abducting people in workplaces, homes and on the streets without warrants.

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It was also suspended several times in the years following the Civil War, during the Reconstruction period, to quash rebellions by the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan group.

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