Tribe

Definition:

  • (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; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
  • (n.) A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
  • (n.) A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
  • (n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
  • (v. t.) To distribute into tribes or classes.

Compare tribe with other words:

lodge vs. tribe

culture vs. tribe

tribe vs. tride

tribe vs. trine

tribe vs. tripe

tribe vs. trice

bribe vs. tribe

tribe vs. trite

race vs. tribe

identity vs. tribe

fraternity vs. tribe

scribe vs. tribe

necrophagan vs. tribe

totemist vs. tribe

tewan vs. tribe

ostrogoth vs. tribe

digger vs. tribe

tribe vs. visigoth

tribe vs. village

kin vs. tribe

fellowship vs. tribe

first vs. tribe

andiron vs. tribe

anchor vs. tribe

phylarchy vs. tribe

mara vs. tribe

tribalism vs. tribe

iroquois vs. tribe

gaulish vs. tribe

sagamore vs. tribe

levite vs. tribe

alemannic vs. tribe

subtribe vs. tribe

tribe vs. tribual

totem vs. tribe

chieftain vs. tribe

exogamy vs. tribe

paterfamilias vs. tribe

tribe vs. tribute

cayuse vs. tribe

hun vs. tribe

gad vs. tribe

dan vs. tribe

sheik vs. tribe

subfamily vs. tribe

folk vs. tribe

illinois vs. tribe

nation vs. tribe

horde vs. tribe

curia vs. tribe

category vs. tribe

ageratum vs. tribe

tribe vs. type

baboon vs. tribe

goat vs. tribe

sovereign vs. tribe

nationality vs. tribe

categorize vs. tribe

class vs. tribe

ethnic vs. tribe

distribute vs. tribe

tribal vs. tribe

genus vs. tribe

state vs. tribe

family vs. tribe

band vs. tribe

people vs. tribe

cohesive vs. tribe

political vs. tribe

ethnical vs. tribe

social vs. tribe

child vs. tribe

saxon vs. tribe

country vs. tribe