English

Alternative forms

• klansman (much less common)

Noun

Klansmen marching in Washington, DC

Klansman ‎(plural Klansmen)

1. A man who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
   • 1868, Robert Henry Newell, Smoked Glass, page 103:

     Klansmen — Behold the Deed without a name

Related terms

• Klanswoman

See also

• clansman

English

Alternative forms

• Klansman (much more common)

Noun

Klansmen marching in Washington, DC

klansman ‎(plural klansmen)

1. A man who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan
   • 1868, Robert Henry Newell, Smoked Glass, page 103:

     Klansmen — Behold the Deed without a name

   • 1900, Albert Bushnell Hart, American History Told by Contemporaries, page 851:

     The fact that nobody foresaw that Chill would blossom into a klansman does not alter the fact that the klansman is one of the flowers of our democracy.

2. (offensive, slang) A very offensive term for a white person unrelated to the KKK or racist ideology

See also

• clansman