Tribe - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a federation (as of American Indians)
- (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
- group of people related by blood or marriage (syn: clan, kin, kindred)
Extra examples
...the wedding joined the two tribes together...
We were only expecting Jack and his wife, but the whole tribe turned up.
The river derives its name from a Native American tribe.
The tribe is governed by a 10-member council.
The tribe has different ceremonial masks for each ceremony.
The tribe is divided into clans.
Their tribe is a small but cohesive group.
The tribe lived in communal huts.
...a fast-talking speculator who thought that euchring the tribe out of their land would be easy...
The tribe's patriarch ruled for 20 years before his death.
The tribe fought to maintain its predominance.
Some members of the tribe were scalped by the attacking warriors.
...mistakenly believed that the tribe was unsophisticated and would sell their land for a fraction of its worth...
...a seafarer's legend that the remote island was inhabited by a warlike and uncivilized tribe...
Few outsiders have ever visited this tribe.
Word forms
singular: tribe
plural: tribes
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