kukluxklanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌku klʌks ˈklæn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn/
• (Northern England) IPA: /ˌkuː klʊks ˈklan/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˌkʉ klʌks ˈklan/

固有名詞

the Ku Klux Klan

1. An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization.

   Synonyms: Klan, KKK, Klux

   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 653:

     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.

関連する語

• KKK
• Klansman
• Ku-Klux

参考

• nightrider
• whitecapper

Further reading

• “Ku Klux Klan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Ku Klux Klan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Ku Klux Klan”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Ku Klux Klan”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “Ku Klux Klan”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.