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Meaning of SEPT

Pronunciation:  sept

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  people descended from a common ancestor; "his family had lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
  2. [n]  the month following August and preceding October
 
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 Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, Sep, September
 
 See Also: American Indian Day, ancestry, autumn, blood, blood line, bloodline, Citizenship Day, descent, dynasty, fall, gens, Gregorian calendar, Gregorian calendar month, homefolk, house, Labor Day, line, line of descent, lineage, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, mid-September, name, New Style, origin, parentage, pedigree, people, September 17, September 29, stock

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
      The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to
      be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
                                               --S. Lover.
 

 

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