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Definition of sept : A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; - used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

Synonyms:

family unit, September, category, crime syndicate, kinsfolk, household, menage, folk music, family line, home, folk, ethnic music, kin, fellowship, class, mob, kinsperson, tribe, family, kinfolk, syndicate, folks, phratry, common people, house, sep

Usage examples:

• From 1604 till 1871 the First Lessons from Sept. - "The Prayer Book Explained", Percival Jackson.
• A curious chapel, called the " Chapelle des Sept Dormants," is here cut in the form of a cross into the rock of the hillside, where are buried the remains of the Seven Sleepers, the disciples of St. Martin, who, as the holy man had predicted, all died on the same day. - "Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country", Francis Miltoun.
• He was to leave by the Pretoria on the afternoon of Sept. - "Native Races and the War", Josephine Elizabeth Butler.