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tribe
/tɹaɪb/
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What does tribe mean?
noun
- An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may constitute a nation with other tribes). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.
- A tribal nation or people.
- A socially cohesive group of people within a society.
More meanings (10)
noun
- A class or group of things.
- A group of apes who live and work together.
- A hierarchical rank between family and genus.
- A species or group of similar species of animal.
- A group of affiliated Mardi Gras Indians.
- A collective noun for various animals.
- A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
- (derogatory, informal) A nation or people considered culturally primitive, as may be the case in Africa, Australia or Native America.
verb
- To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/tɹaɪb/
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Trotting along behind her, close to her heels, was quite the most forlorn specimen of the cat tribe she had ever beheld.
Here come other Pyncheons, the whole tribe, in their half a dozen generations, jostling and elbowing one another, to reach the picture.
More book examples (3)
Their owners were numerous enough to be regarded as a tribe, and had almost distinctiveness enough to be regarded as a race.
He was only nine years old when his family was separated from the rest of the tribe while on a buffalo hunt.
Deer heads went into it whole, as well as every kind of meat and vegetable the members of the tribe could procure.