Ku Klux Klan

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn/    美 /ˌku klʌks ˈklæn/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization.
    — 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.

词形变化

the Ku Klux Klan canonical

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) and clan, split syllabically into three words, with the first letter of clan changing to a 'k' in order to match the initial letters of the previous two words.
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