Clan Terminology

Clan Terminology

General Terms

 * Apprentice – A young cat training to become a warrior. Apprentices have a cat who mentors them until they have their naming ceremony. A kit becomes an apprentice at 6 moons and becomes a warrior at 12 moons when they pass their final assessment.
 * Crowfood – A dead prey animal that has begun to rot can also be used as an insult (see below).
 * Cutter – A veterinarian, specifically, though not always, referring to one that spays or neuters cats.
 * Deputy – An experienced cat who is in charge of giving orders like hunting are patrols. They become the next leader after the current one dies unless someone challenges them and that cat wins.
 * Deathberries – A bright red berry that can kill a cat by making it sick and die.


 * Dirt – A cat's feces or dung.
 * Elder – An old cat who retired. Sometimes when a cat becomes an elder they change their name. (i.e. A cat named White-eye changed her name to One-eye when she retired because of her missing eye).
 * Fresh-kill – A recently killed prey animal caught for the purpose of consumption. Fresh-kill is hunted by warriors and apprentices, and placed on the fresh kill pile or brought to the elders. Elders, kits, queens, and sick cats eat first, then warriors and apprentices. Extras stay in the fresh-kill pile. Always give thanks to StarClan for your prey and don’t play with it.
 * Fourtrees – A place located in the forest territory, where the territory's corners would meet, in which four oaks stood and the Clans would gather in peace every full moon.
 * Gathering island - A place much like Fourtrees, but on an island at the lake territories.
 * Gathering – The monthly meeting of all the Clans when the moon is full, at either Fourtrees or the Island. There is a truce on this night, and no fighting is allowed.
 * Greenleaf Twolegplace – A place frequented by Twolegs during summer, such as a resort or camping spot near the lake.
 * Halfbridge – A boat dock; term was first used by Squirrelflight when Brambleclaw’s patrol was exploring the new territory in Starlight.
 * Horseplace – A horse ranch or stables.
 * Hunting Patrol – A group of cats hunting for fresh-kill to bring back for their Clan to eat.
 * Kit – A cat that is younger than 6 moons or a child.
 * Kittypet – A domesticated pet cat that lives with two-legs, or a house cat.
 * Leader – The leader of a clan. They lead the clan and give cats their warrior name etc. They receive nine lives from StarClan and the suffix of their name changes to "star" when they become leader.
 * Loner – A cat that lives by itself and doesn't defend its territory.
 * Making dirt – Equal to going to the bathroom for a human.
 * Medicine cat – Like a doctor. Medicine cats use herbs to heal wounded or sick cats in their clan. They have the closest relationship with StarClan and sometimes get omens or warnings from StarClan in their dreams. Medicine cats don't follow the Warrior Code but instead the Medicine Cat Code. Medicine cats are not allow to have kits.
 * Monster – A vehicle operated by humans. Some examples include cars, trucks, tractors, and ATVs. Motorboats are sometimes referred to as "water-monsters.”
 * Moonpool – The place near the Lake where medicine cats and leaders share tongues with StarClan.
 * Moonstone – The place in the Forest where medicine cats and leaders shared tongues with StarClan.
 * Mothermouth – The opening to the cave where the Moonstone is/was located.
 * Queen – A she-cat that is mothering kits younger than 6 moons or is pregnant with kits.
 * Rogue – A usually hostile cat who does not have a permanent home, roams around, and does not care about crossing Clan boundaries.
 * Sharing tongues – Cats grooming each other while sharing the latest gossip. A cat lies on the ground, talking, while the other grooms their fur, listening.
 * She-cat – A female cat; female kits can be called she-kits too.
 * Silver boulder – A boulder that, when the silver disc is pulled off, holds Twoleg rubbish. To Twolegs, they are just trash cans.
 * Silverpelt – The large swath of stars in the sky. These stars are a direct representation of StarClan.
 * Snowmelt – A term used to describe slush or dirty, melted snow.
 * Soft boulder – A pillow or cushion.
 * Sun-Drown Place – An ocean to the west of the Clans’ territories.
 * Tree-eater – A bulldozer.
 * Thunderpath – A paved road with an extremely acrid smell that cars often go across. The Thunderpath separated ThunderClan and ShadowClan in the original Territories. There is also one in ThunderClan territory by the lake.
 * Tom/tomcat – A male cat.
 * Twoleg – A human, but some other cats like kittypets or Purdy (A former kittypet who became a loner who later on joined ThunderClan) call humans housefolk or upwalkers.
 * Twoleg Kit– A human child.
 * Twoleg Nest – A human's house.
 * Twolegplace – A town, city, or village where Twolegs live.
 * Warrior – A cat trained to fight and hunt for their clan.
 * She-Cat - Usually used to describe a female cat.

Time Terms

 * Newleaf – The season of spring.
 * Greenleaf – The season of summer.
 * Leaf-fall – The season of autumn or fall.
 * Leaf-bare – The season of winter.
 * Moon – The time between one full moon and the next, spanning about 29 days, a month.
 * Moonhigh – When the moon is the highest in the sky; about midnight.
 * Moonrise – The time when the moon rises.
 * Half-moon – About two weeks, half a month.
 * Quarter-moon – About a week.
 * Sunhigh – The point during the day when the sun is highest in the sky; noon.
 * Sunrise – One day in cat time (i.e. One sunrise ago).
 * Season – A quarter of a year in cat time. Four seasons equal a year.
 * Heartbeat – A split second.
 * Claw-moon – When the moon resembles the shape of an unsheathed claw, equivalent to crescent moon.
 * Sundown – The time of day when the sun is down.
 * Sunup – The time of day when the sun is up.