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Tribe   /traɪb/   Listen
Tribe

noun
1.
A social division of (usually preliterate) people.  Synonym: folk.
2.
A federation (as of American Indians).  Synonym: federation of tribes.
3.
(biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily.
4.
Group of people related by blood or marriage.  Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group.



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... the rising ground, with waddies, boomerangs, spears, and a number of broken dishes scattered round them. The natives seemed to have run away and left them, or to have been driven away by a hostile tribe. Between two of the worleys we observed a handful of hair, apparently torn from the skull of the dead man, and a handful of emu feathers placed close together, the feathers to the north-west, the hair to the south-east. ...
— Explorations in Australia, The Journals of John McDouall Stuart • John McDouall Stuart
... 'He comes of a northern tribe; and in his life-time he never rhymed upon his unattainable lady, or if rhyme he did, the accents never carried her name to the ears of the vulgar. ...
— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang
... 3d of March, 1871, Congress declared that "hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may ...
— The Indian Question (1874) • Francis A. Walker
... that head of Cline, by Chantrey! Is that forehead, that nose, those temples and that chin, akin to the monkey tribe? No, no. To a man of sensibility no argument could disprove the bestial theory so convincingly as a quiet ...
— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge
... and heard that Quibian was confined to his house by a wound. Mendez on this announced that he was a surgeon, and offered to cure the chief of his wound. Making his way towards the chief's residence, he came upon an open space where he saw raised on posts the heads of three hundred enemies of the tribe ...
— Notable Voyagers - From Columbus to Nordenskiold • W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith


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