clansman:
(plural: clansmen; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king” and the letters ‘cla’ rhyme with the letters ‘cla’ in “clap” — ‘clans…man’; female: ‘clanswoman’)
a member of a very large family, all the relatives in one group, called a clan,
Obama & his clansmen
Mr Rashid goes to his hometown quite often to meet his clansmen and discuss their problems.
There is a particular status order or pecking order in a clan in which the oldest clansman or clanswoman is given the highest respect, and the priests and the witch doctors come next and so on.
In some clans, all the clansmen sit together in one group and all the clanswomen in another group, and eat from one large plate to bind their relationship stronger.
It is not uncommon to use the expression clansmen to refer to all the people who support an idea, a system or a person, usually a politician, though they do not have any blood relation with one another.
