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Tribe

trʌɪb

Tribe definitions

noun

Inflections:

tribe tribes

(especially with reference to ancient or Indigenous peoples) a social division in a society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect

"indigenous Indian tribes"

Synonyms:
ethnic group people race nation
- (in ancient Rome) each of several political divisions, originally three, later thirty, ultimately thirty-five
- a large number of people
  
  "tribes of children playing under the watchful eyes of nurses"
a distinctive or close-knit group

"she made a stand against the social codes of her English middle-class tribe"

Synonyms:
group crowd gang company body band host bevy party pack army herd flock drove horde mob
a taxonomic category that ranks above genus and below family or subfamily, usually ending in -ini (in zoology) or -eae (in botany)