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KLANSMAN
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• KLANSMAN (noun)
The noun KLANSMAN has 1 sense:
1. a member of the Ku Klux Klan
Familiarity information: KLANSMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the Ku Klux Klan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("Klansman" is a kind of...):
white supremacist (a person who believes that the white race is or should be supreme)
Holonyms ("Klansman" is a member of...):
KKK; Klan; Ku Klux Klan (a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people)
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"The carpenter's door is loose." (Arabic proverb)
"Nothing is blacker than the pan." (Corsican proverb)