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n. A kinship group constituting an intermediate division in the primitive structure of the Hellenic tribe or phyle, consisting of several patrilinear clans, and surviving in classical times as a territorial subdivision in the political and military organization of the Athenian state.

n. Anthropology An exogamous subdivision of the tribe, constituting two or more related clans.

n. A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.

n. A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

n. A brotherhood or clan; specifically, in the states of ancient Greece, a politico-religious group of citizens, which appears to have been originally based on kinship and to have been a subdivision of the phyle or tribe.

n. people descended from a common ancestor

"Membership in a brotherhood called a phratry was desirable but probably not a necessary condition of citizenship."

ancestry    stemma    pedigree    lineage    parentage    origin    line    descent    blood    stock   

homefolk    name    gens    house    people    dynasty   

houseand    sib    clachan    snake-in-the-grass    clothesbrush    milady    clansman    mula    kye