Ku Klux Klan

From Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) and clan, split syllabically into three words, with the first letter of clan changing to a 'k' to match the other two.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn/

Ku Klux Klan

1. An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization.

   Synonyms: Klan, KKK

   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, OCLC 1049770437; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, OCLC 20350211, part IV, page 653:

     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.

• Flu Trux Klan

• KKK
• klansman
• Ku-Klux
• nightrider
• whitecapper

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• “Ku Klux Klan”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Ku Klux Klan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Ku Klux Klan” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ku Klux Klan m or f

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Ku Klux Klan n

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