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1. (n.) phratry
a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
2. phratry
(in ancient Greece) a social group, based on real or fictional kinship, with corporate laws and a set of tutelary deities.
Etymology: (1745–55; < Gk phrātría=phrātr-, s. of phrātēr clansman (akin to brother ) +-ia -y3)
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1. (noun) family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
people descended from a common ancestor
"his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
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1. (noun) phratry
a subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens
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