💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Tanistry"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| tanistnoun | (historical) The heir presumptive to the chieftainship or kingship of a Celtic clan in ancient Ireland, Scotland or Mann. |
| undertakernoun | A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations. |
| ogtiernnoun | (Scotland, historical) The person who is fourth in the line of descent from a thane. |
| tuathnoun | (historical) A tribe or group of people in Ireland, having a loose voluntary system of governance entered into through contracts by all members. |
| sequelnoun | (narratology) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own. |
| termonnoun | (Ireland, historical) An area of land belonging to a church or monastery |
| tartan torynoun | (Scotland, UK politics, somewhat dated) A member or supporter of the Scottish National Party, connoting sentimentality or old-fashionedness. |
| streedhannoun | Alternative form of stridhana. [In Hindu law, property belonging to a woman, following special rules of succession.] |
| sennachienoun | Alternative form of seannachie. [(Ireland, Scotland) a bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.] |
| gavelkindnoun | (historical) a system of inheritance associated with the county of Kent in England whereby, at the death of a tenant, intestate estate is divided equally among all his sons; also, a similar system employed in Ireland |
| seannachienoun | (Ireland, Scotland) a bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture. |
| sorehonnoun | (historical, Ireland) A kind of servile tenure in Ireland which required the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel. |
| taigheirmnoun | Alternative form of taghairm. [(historical, Scotland) An ancient divination method of the Highland Scots involving animal sacrifice.] |
| tartanenoun | Alternative spelling of tartan (“sailing vessel”). [(uncountable) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.] |
| scotnoun | A person born in or native to Scotland. |
| cosherynoun | (historical) The ancient right of an Irish chief to quarter himself and his retainers on his tenantry. |
| teaguenoun | A city in Freestone County, Texas, United States. |
| chieferynoun | The status or role of a chief; chieftainship. |
| tradnoun | (music) Irish traditional music |
| maormornoun | (historical) A royal steward in ancient Scotland. |
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