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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sept has 2 senses
- sept(n = noun.time) sep, september - the month following August and preceding October; Array is a part of gregorian calendar, new style calendar
- sept(n = noun.group) family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" has particulars: people, homefolk, house, dynasty, gens, name
has parts: michaelmas, michaelmas day, september 29, labor day, citizenship day, september 17, american indian day, mid-september, autumnal equinox, fall equinox, september equinox, 9-11, 9/11, sep 11, sept. 11, september 11
is a kind of gregorian calendar month
is a kind of ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
CIDE DICTIONARY
sept, n. [A corruption of sect, n.].
A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland. [1913 Webster]
"The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example."
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THESAURUS
sept
affiliation, animal kingdom, apparentation, birth, blood, bloodline, bracket, branch, breed, brood, caste, category, clan, class, common ancestry, consanguinity, deme, derivation, descent, direct line, distaff side, division, estate, extraction, family, female line, filiation, folk, gens, grade, group, grouping, head, heading, house, kin, kind, label, level, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, matriclan, nation, order, patriclan, people, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, plant kingdom, position, predicament, race, rank, rating, rubric, section, seed, set, side, spear side, species, spindle side, station, status, stem, stirps, stock, strain, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, succession, sword side, title, totem, tribeROGET THESAURUS
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Consanguinity
N consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation, affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, ear relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation, related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german.Class
N class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section, department, subdepartment, province, domain, kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset, assortment, feather, kidney, suit, range, gender, sex, kin, manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament, indication, particularization, selection, specification, similarity.Paternity
N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.
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