Klan

[ klan ]

noun

1. Ku Klux Klan.
2. a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

Klan

/ klæn /

noun

1. See Ku Klux Klan
   the Klan
   the Klan short for Ku Klux Klan

Derived Forms

• ˈKlanism, noun

Other Words From

• Klanism noun

Example Sentences

I remember when your show premiered, and I saw you hanging with the Klan at a cross burning, and I was like, Hell, no!

From Outside Online

Wallace, who held power over the university and state law enforcement and enjoyed a close alliance with the Klan, was determined to enhance his stature through a showdown with the federal government.

From Time

Los Angeles had been one of the largest centers of Klan activity outside the South in the 1920s and 1930s.

From Washington Post

He left the role after about a year and later denounced the violence and racism of the Klan.

From Washington Post

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest died in 1877, yet the slave trader and Klan leader still haunts the American landscape.

From Time

He affected an anchorman finesse in apologizing for “past mistakes” as a Ku Klux Klan leader.

From The Daily Beast

And his last known affiliation with the Klan was almost 70 years ago, in 1946.

From The Daily Beast

Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

From The Daily Beast

The area is 98 percent white, and the Klan has a strong foothold even to this very day.

From The Daily Beast

If they are interested in changing, why do they continue to call themselves the Ku Klux Klan?

From The Daily Beast

In one case a man who stood very high in the Johnson City Klan was talking with me about a public demonstration.

From Project Gutenberg

The attacks on the Klan by the Staff were the subjects of many discussions, and it was decided to “put a muzzle on the paper.”

From Project Gutenberg

Accordingly many advertisers quietly suggested to the publisher of the paper that he “lay off” the Ku Klux Klan.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of them were valuable pieces of documentary evidence to sustain the case made against the Klan by the World.

From Project Gutenberg

When a Klan is chartered, a per capita tax of $1.85 for each member is required to be sent to the Imperial Palace.

From Project Gutenberg