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Definition of 'Tribe'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tribe
any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.

2.  tribe
a local division of an aboriginal people.

3.  tribe
a category in the classification of organisms usu. between a subfamily and a genus.

4.  tribe
any group of plants or animals.

5.  tribe
a group of animals, esp. cattle, descended through the female line from a common female ancestor.

6.  tribe
a company, group, or set of persons, esp. one with strong common traits or interests.

7.  tribe
a large family.

8.  tribe
(in ancient Rome)

9.  tribe
any one of three divisions of the people representing the Latin, Sabine, and Etruscan settlements.

10.  tribe
one of the later political divisions of the people, reaching a total of 35 in number.

11.  tribe
a phyle of ancient Greece.

Etymology: (1200–50; ME < L tribus tribe, orig., each of the three divisions of the Roman people)

Definition of 'Tribe'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tribe, folk
a social division of (usually preliterate) people

2. (noun) tribe, federation of tribes
a federation (as of American Indians)

3. (noun) tribe
(biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily

4. (noun) kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe
group of people related by blood or marriage

Definition of 'Tribe'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) tribe
a group of people of the same ethnic group living together in an area
an Amazonian tribe

Definition of 'Tribe'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Tribe
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

2. (noun) Tribe
a number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals

3. (noun) Tribe
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

4. (noun) Tribe
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

5. (noun) Tribe
a family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns

6. (verb) Tribe
to distribute into tribes or classes

Translation of 'Tribe'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a race of people, or a family, who are all descended from the same ancestor the tribes of Israel.
Afrikaans: stam	Arabic: عِرْق ، قَبيلَه	Bulgarian: род
Brazilian: tribo	Czech: kmen	German: der Stamm
Danish: stamme	Greek: φυλή	Spanish: tribu
Estonian: hõim	Farsi: طایفه	Finnish: suku
French: tribu	Hebrew: שֶבֶט	Hindi: जन जाति
Croatian: narod	Hungarian: (nép)törzs	Indonesian: suku bangsa
Icelandic: ættflokkur/-bálkur, ætt,	Italian: tribù, genia	Japanese: 種族
Korean: 종족	Lithuanian: giminė, gentis	Latvian: cilts
Malay: puak	Dutch: stam	Norwegian: stamme, klan, familie
Polish: plemię	Persian: طایفه	Pashto: طایفه
Romanian: neam	Russian: поколение; колено	Slovak: kmeň
Slovenian: pleme	Serbian: pleme	Swedish: [folk]stam, släkt
Thai: เชื้อชาติ	Turkish: soy, boy	Taiwanese: 部落，種族
Ukrainian: клан; коліно	Urdu: قبيلہ	Vietnamese: bộ lạc
Chinese: 种族，宗族
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