"Ku Klux Klan" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn/ [UK], /ˌku klʌks ˈklæn/ [US] Forms: the Ku Klux Klan [canonical]
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) and clan, split syllabically into three words, with the first letter of clan changing to a 'k' in order to match the initial letters of the previous two words. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kʷel-}}, {{bor+|en|grc|κύκλος||circle}} Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|def=1|nolinkhead=1}} the Ku Klux Klan
  1. An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization. Categories (topical): Ku Klux Klan, Organizations, Politics, Racism Synonyms: Klan, KKK, Klux Related terms: KKK, Klansman, Ku-Klux, nightrider, whitecapper Translations (Ku Klux Klan): كُو كْلُوكْس كْلَان (kū kluks klān) [masculine] (Arabic), Կու-կլուքս-կլան (Ku-klukʻs-klan) (Armenian), Ku-kluks-klan (Azerbaijani), Ку-Клукс-кла́н (Ku-Kluks-klán) [masculine] (Belarusian), কু ক্লাক্স ক্লান (ku klakśo klan) (Bengali), Ку-клукс-кла́н (Ku-kluks-klán) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ကူကလပ်ကလန် (kuka.lapka.lan) (Burmese), 三K黨 (Chinese Mandarin), 三K党 (sān-kèi-dǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), Ku Klux Klan (Dutch), Ku-Kluks-Klano (Esperanto), Ku Klux Klan (Finnish), Ku Klux Klan [masculine] (French), კუ-კლუქს-კლანი (ḳu-ḳluks-ḳlani) (Georgian), Ku-Klux-Klan (German), Κου Κλουξ Κλαν (Kou Kloux Klan) (Greek), קו קלוקס קלאן (ku kluks klan) [masculine] (Hebrew), कू क्लक्स क्लान (kū klaks klān) (Hindi), Ku Klux Klan (Hungarian), Ku Klux Klan (Icelandic), Ku Klux Klan [masculine] (Italian), クー・クラックス・クラン (Kū-kurakkusu-kuran) (Japanese), 쿠 클럭스 클랜 (Ku keulleokseu keullaen) (Korean), Kukluksklanas [masculine] (Lithuanian), Кју-клукс-клан (Kju-kluks-klan) [masculine] (Macedonian), कू क्लक्स क्लॅन (kū klaksa klĕn) (Marathi), Ку-клукс-клан (Ku-kluks-klan) (Mongolian), Ku Klux Klan (Norwegian), کو کلوکس کلان (ku keluks kelân) (Persian), Ku Klux Klan [masculine] (Polish), Ku Klux Klan (Portuguese), Ku Klux Klan (Romanian), Ку-клукс-кла́н (Ku-kluks-klán) [masculine] (Russian), Кју-клукс-клан [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Kju-kluks-klan [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Kukluxklan [masculine] (Slovak), Kukluksklan [masculine] (Slovene), Ku Klux Klan [masculine] (Spanish), Ku Klux Klan (Swedish), คูคลักซ์แคลน (kuu-klák-klɛɛn) (Thai), Ku Klux Klan (Turkish), Ку-Клукс-кла́н (Ku-Kluks-klán) [masculine] (Ukrainian), ку-клукс-кла́н (ku-kluks-klán) [masculine] (Ukrainian), Ku-Kluks-Klan (Uzbek), Ku Klux Klan (Vietnamese), קו־קלוקס־קלען (ku-kluks-klen) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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Alternative forms

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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
          "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "kuu-klák-klɛɛn",
          "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
          "word": "คูคลักซ์แคลน"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
          "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "Ku-Kluks-klán",
          "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Ку-Клукс-кла́н"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "ku-kluks-klán",
          "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "ку-клукс-кла́н"
        },
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          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
          "word": "Ku-Kluks-Klan"
        },
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
          "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "ku-kluks-klen",
          "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "קו־קלוקס־קלען"
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      "ipa": "/ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn/",
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      "ipa": "/ˌku klʌks ˈklæn/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
}
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        "Terms with Burmese translations",
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        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
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        {
          "ref": "1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 653:",
          "text": "The very suspicion of seditious utterances against the government, suspected complicity in the Ku Klux Klan, or complaint by a negro that a white man had been uppity to him were enough to land a citizen in jail.",
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        "An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization."
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          "white supremacy"
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          "secret society"
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          "word": "Klan"
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          "word": "KKK"
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          "word": "Klux"
        }
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      "ipa": "/ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn/",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˌku klʌks ˈklæn/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "kū kluks klān",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "كُو كْلُوكْس كْلَان"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "Ku-klukʻs-klan",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Կու-կլուքս-կլան"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku-kluks-klan"
    },
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "Ku-Kluks-klán",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ку-Клукс-кла́н"
    },
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      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "ku klakśo klan",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "কু ক্লাক্স ক্লান"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "Ku-kluks-klán",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ку-клукс-кла́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "kuka.lapka.lan",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "ကူကလပ်ကလန်"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "三K黨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "sān-kèi-dǎng",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "三K党"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku-Kluks-Klano"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳu-ḳluks-ḳlani",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "კუ-კლუქს-კლანი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku-Klux-Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "Kou Kloux Klan",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Κου Κλουξ Κλαν"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ku kluks klan",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "קו קלוקס קלאן"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "kū klaks klān",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "कू क्लक्स क्लान"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Kū-kurakkusu-kuran",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "クー・クラックス・クラン"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Ku keulleokseu keullaen",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "쿠 클럭스 클랜"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kukluksklanas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "Kju-kluks-klan",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Кју-клукс-клан"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "kū klaksa klĕn",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "कू क्लक्स क्लॅन"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "Ku-kluks-klan",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ку-клукс-клан"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ku keluks kelân",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "کو کلوکس کلان"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Ku-kluks-klán",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ку-клукс-кла́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Кју-клукс-клан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kju-kluks-klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kukluxklan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kukluksklan"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kuu-klák-klɛɛn",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "คูคลักซ์แคลน"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "Ku-Kluks-klán",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ку-Клукс-кла́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ku-kluks-klán",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ку-клукс-кла́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku-Kluks-Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "ku-kluks-klen",
      "sense": "Ku Klux Klan",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "קו־קלוקס־קלען"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Ku Klux Klan"
}

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