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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enclave
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
small
▪ Within them was the small papal enclave of Benevento.
▪ Near Belturbet, we reached the Border once more, and drove into a small enclave.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Nagorno-Karabakh is a mainly Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All eyes followed the Collector as he strode about the enclave grimacing and muttering to himself.
▪ It was bizarre, surrealistic, a little enclave of cancer patients in a noisy, crowded bar.
▪ One of these was a dreadful modern slum in Liverpool - an enclave of vandalised flats surrounded by wastelands.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enclave

Enclave \En*clave"\, n. [F., fr. L. in + clavus a nail.] A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave. [Recent]

Enclave

Enclave \En*clave"\, v. t. [Cf. F. enclaver.] To inclose within an alien territory. [Recent]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enclave

"small portion of one country which is entirely surrounded by the territory of another," 1868, from French enclave, from Old French enclaver "enclose, comprise, include" (13c.), from Late Latin inclavare "shut in, lock up," from Latin in- "in" (see in- (2)) + clavis "key" (see slot (n.2)). Enclaved "surrounded by land owned by another" is attested in English from mid-15c., from Old French enclaver.

Wiktionary
enclave

n. 1 A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another. 2 A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior. vb. (context transitive English) To enclose within a foreign territory.

WordNet
enclave

n. an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it

Wikipedia
Enclave (comics)

The Enclave is a fictional subversive organization of dictatorially-minded scientists featured in comics published by Marvel Comics.

Enclave (video game)

Enclave is a third-person 3D action role-playing game by Starbreeze Studios, released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox on July 19, 2002. A GameCube version was also in development but was eventually cancelled in early 2003. A Wii port, titled Enclave: Shadows of Twilight, was originally slated for the middle of June 2010, and was released in Europe on May 22, 2012.

In this game, set in a medieval fantasy realm, players can choose to take on the role of either a "Warrior of Light" or a "Minion of Darkness", complete with separate and unique missions reflecting the nature of that decision.

Enclave (disambiguation)

An enclave is any portion of a state that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state.

Enclave may also refer to:

Enclave (film)

Enclave is a 2015 German-Serbian co-produced drama film directed by Goran Radovanović. It was one of six films shortlisted by Serbia to be their submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. On 3 September 2015 it was selected to represent Serbia for the Foreign Language Oscar.

The main theme of the film is life of Kosovo Serbs in small isolated communities, called enclaves.

Usage examples of "enclave".

The remaining two apices had established their own small enclaves on the board and were taking comparatively little part in the wider game.

A reference to the conflict between secessionist ethnic Armenians living in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave of Azerbaijan, and the Azeri government.

Cimbric woman would have within the tribal enclave, and also owed the tribe far less than a Cimbric woman would have.

Gate were little enclaves of Druses, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Confucianists, Taoists, Shintoists, Hindus, Pantheists, Gnostics, Orphics, Metempsychosans, Dualists, Unitarians.

Laurence could not help but feel a certain kinship with him, as a fellow Westerner in the depths of the Oriental enclave, and though De Guignes was himself not a military man, his familiarity with the French aerial corps made him sympathetic company.

South Lebanon and the predominantly Muslim western half of Beirut became the power base of the PLO and various Lebanese Muslim militias, while the Christian eastern half of Beirut and the Christian enclave on Mt.

So when Vicki Turner had left the enclaves and come to live with Livers and given Lizzie a good terminal and crystal library, there was everything to learn.

Enclave Police Chief Stephanie Brunell expressed both outrage and puzzlement at that attack, allegedly motivated by a search for Change syringes, by the terrorist group calling itself Livers For Control.

Enclave TZ9, and she showed me how psi-mutes are being forcibly lobotomized, converted to lobos.

Is it more than coincidental that Stepford has become an enclave of computer experts, microcircuitry designers, systems engineers, optical sensor developers .

They were wrong, but for the present, humans controlled their Enclaves and gradually adapted to them, even retaining a residue of loyal, intelligent pets content to live with their masters.

Environment had thwarted Charley by dropping him into an enclave where deliberately primitivistic cultural traits were maintained.

Sabians were called by proper Moslems, had some sort of semiautonomous enclave on an airless moon of one of the gas giants of the orange star, and there had been recent nationalist stirrings among a disaffected few that the Sultan was attempting to quell by funneling more financial aid through the ruling elders.

Tents, booths, collapsible shops, the open rings of combat and the closed enclaves of sensory titivation, jugglers, tumblers, contortionists, men who promised eternal happiness, and harpies who roved, hard-eyed and falsely charming, offering pleasure to those who had come to join in the fun.

The Village is a little enclave, with walls and gates guarded a lot better than some banks.