Tribe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A unit of sociopolitical organization consisting of a number of families, clans, or other groups who share a common ancestry and culture and among whom leadership is typically neither formalized nor permanent.
  • n. A political, ethnic, or ancestral division of ancient states and cultures, especially:
  • n. Any of the three divisions of the ancient Romans, namely, the Latin, Sabine, and Etruscan.
  • n. Any of the 12 divisions of ancient Israel.
  • n. A phyle of ancient Greece.
  • n. A group of people sharing an occupation, interest, or habit: a tribe of graduate students.
  • n. Informal A large family.
  • n. Biology A taxonomic category placed between a subfamily and a genus or between a suborder and a family and usually containing several genera.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.
  • n. A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
  • n. The collective noun for various animals.
  • n. A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
  • v. To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
  • n. A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common.
  • n. A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government.
  • n. A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated.
  • n. A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
  • v. To distribute into tribes or classes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In Roman history, one of the three patrician orders, or original political divisions of the people of ancient Rome, the Ramnes, Tities, and Luceres, representing respectively, according to tradition, the separate Latin, Sabine, and Etruscan settlements, having at their union equal representation in the senate, and retaining their distinctive names for several centuries.
  • n. Any one of the similar divisions of a race or nation common in antiquity, whether of natural or of political origin: as, the tribes (φυλαι) of Athens.
  • n. Specifically, a division of a barbarous race of people, usually distinguishable in some way from their congeners, united into a community under a recognized head or chief, ruling either independently or subordinately.
  • n. Any class or body of persons taken collectively; any aggregate of individuals of a kind, either as a united body or as distinguished by some common characteristic or occupation.
  • n. A family of cattle having a common female ancestor.
  • n. In zoology and botany, a classificatory group of uncertain taxonomic rank, above a genus, and usually below an order; loosely, any group or series of animals: as, the furry, feathery, or finny tribes; the cat tribe.
  • To distribute into tribes or classes.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
  • n. a social division of (usually preliterate) people
  • n. a federation (as of American Indians)
  • n. group of people related by blood or marriage
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    nation   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    tribelet    tribal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    race    group    set   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Scribe    ascribe    bribe    circumscribe    describe    gibe    imbibe    inscribe    jibe    oversubscribe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    race    inhabitant    kingdom    family    army    colony    prince    district    God    species