Definitions for clachans

clachans cla·chan

Spelling: [klah-khuh n, kla-]
IPA: /ˈklɑ xən, ˈklæ-/

Clachans is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in clachans (aacchlns).

Definitions for clachans

noun

  1. a small village or hamlet.

Origin of clachans

1375-1425; late Middle English (Scots) Scots Gaelic, equivalent to clach stone + -an diminutive suffix

Examples for clachans

On November 14 some of them mishandled an old man in the clachan of Dalry, on the Ken.

Not till they came in sight of the clachan of Fasagrianach, did the witches relinquish the chase.

The village, the clachan, the city, he avoids: he flies from them as something intolerably hostile to his hopes.

The school is a mile away at another "clachan," but the inspector dines with me, and so does the schoolmaster.

And she bade us finish our meat, get clear of the clachan as soon as might be, and lie close in the bit wood on the sea-beach.

Night lay passively upon the sea, upon the isle, upon the clachan.

Hewson is still in the clachan hard by when he urges his friend to come to him: and he comes.

The “clachan” is now all spick and span; but its surroundings are the same.

There is no place else for seven miles yet, when there is the clachan, before you will be coming to Fionnaphort.

These important news were soon diffused through the clachan.

Word Value for clachans
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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