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tribe

[trahyb]

noun

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

a local division of an aboriginal people.

a division of some other people.

a class or type of animals, plants, articles, or the like.

Animal Husbandry. a group of animals, especially cattle, descended through the female line from a common female ancestor.

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Biology.

a category in the classification of organisms usually between a subfamily and a genus or sometimes between a suborder and a family.

any group of plants or animals.

a company, group, or number of persons.

a class or set of persons, especially one with strong common traits or interests.

a large family.

10.

Roman History.

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

any of the later political divisions of the people.

11.

Greek History. a phyle.

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Origin:
1200–50; Middle English < Latin tribus tribe, orig., each of the three divisions of the Roman people; often taken as derivative of trēs three, though formation unclear

Related forms

sub·tribe, noun

un·der·tribe, noun

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Example Sentences

There morality is created when the father of the tribe is killed.

Everything consumed by the tribe comes in that way, and every piece of refuse must be flown out.

The potential tribe finds itself in jeopardy as investors drop out and new staff drops in.

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There morality is created when the father of the tribe is killed.

Everything consumed by the tribe comes in that way, and every piece of refuse must be flown out.

The potential tribe finds itself in jeopardy as investors drop out and new staff drops in.

Man is a tribal animal, early in his evolution the strongest ruled the tribe.

Take it to a college history professor near you and maybe they can give you more information about a specific tribe and time.

Every piece of terrain is considered owned or controlled by some tribe or clan.

Understand that you are a participant observer in the tribe.

Most of the money coming into the tribe is from federal grants of one sort or another.

Tribe members appeared from the forest one day at an oil exploration camp.

Tempering justice with mercy: the question of youthful offenders in the tribe of science.

She said that she felt her tribe and family were what made her who she was.

One tribe has endorsed the nickname, but the other has refused to even schedule a vote.

Only by stirring up a race war have they managed to unite the rest of their small tribe behind them.

Small raiding parties from each tribe would steal horses, and possibly kill a few men.

The claims that do survive the skeptical scrutiny of the tribe get to take their place in the shard body of scientific knowledge.

No corporation or tribe has as many cigarette-selling sites.

One of the bow-tied men pictured below is not a member of the presidential tribe.

The tribe provides the support and security that the fragmented families of these young singles frequently fail to offer.

Perhaps a tribe or species gains some survival advantage by castrating its subordinate males.

There was a time when you could say that good design produced a concept or ideas to help you and your tribe have a better life.

Few of the country's politicians seem able to put patriotism before party, tribe or personal interest.

Our species history is full of that from one tribe to another within our species.

Obviously this author has no concept of the males role in the family group and the tribe.

In the days of the hunter gatherer you needed a large area to sustain a tribe.

Early sales are encouraging, and soon the tribe will be.

His tribe wasn't impressed by his lack of control, and they lost the challenge.

The women of the tribe spend their days gathering fruits and berries and digging for roots.

He spends his days raiding neighboring villages and protecting his own tribe from attacks by wild animals.

Up close and personal with individuals from the tribe.

In response, the tribe donated highly prized cows to the.

Many of the warriors of this tribe wore this hairstyle.

My tribe has been spread all over the world due to the negative politics.

Another example is a local tribe in my area who's psychologist reports no incidence of schizophrenia in the tribe.

What is all to often ignored is it was one tribe of blacks who would help the white slave traders trap another tribe of blacks.

They said that when women in this tribe get married they move to a new village.

From the sanitized safety of the industrialized world, it's hard to imagine how any neighborhood or tribe could hold such views.

The better our tribe is doing, the better our chances.

There is no indication that a single ember of any tribe died as a result of this single action.

The members of a tribe have an evolutionary interest in removing mutations that might harm the group eventually.

These spells of low energy among women in a tribe would be detrimental to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

Look at a wide variety of life here on earth and you can see how different species come together as a tribe.

Humans will adjust by limiting births at a tribe level.

The tribe members notice that the less hairy members or hairless mutant are superior cold-water fishermen/women.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

tribe (traɪb)

—n
1.	a social division of a people, esp of a preliterate people, defined in terms of common descent, territory, culture, etc
2.	an ethnic or ancestral division of ancient cultures, esp of one of the following
	a. any of the three divisions of the ancient Romans, the Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans
	b. one of the later political divisions of the Roman people
	c. any of the 12 divisions of ancient Israel, each of which was named after and believed to be descended from one of the 12 patriarchs
	d. a phyle of ancient Greece
3.	informal, jocular often
	a. a large number of persons, animals, etc
	b. a specific class or group of persons
	c. a family, esp a large one
4.	biology a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a subfamily
5.	stockbreeding a strain of animals descended from a common female ancestor through the female line

[C13: from Latin tribus; probably related to Latin trēs three]

'tribeless

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

tribe

mid-13c., "one of the twelve divisions of the ancient Hebrews," from O.Fr. tribu, from L. tribus "one of the three political/ethnic divisions of the original Roman state" (Tites, Ramnes, and Luceres, corresponding, perhaps, to the Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans), later, one of the 30 political divisions

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instituted by Servius Tullius (increased to 35 in 241 B.C.E.), perhaps from tri- "three" + *bhu-, root of the verb be. Others connect the word with the root of Welsh tref "town, inhabited place." In the Biblical sense, which was the original one in English, the Latin word translates Gk. phyle "race or tribe of men, body of men united by ties of blood and descent, a clan" (see physic). Extension to any ethnic group or race of people is first recorded 1590s. Tribal "characterized by strong group loyalty" is recorded from 1951.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

tribe (trīb)
n.
An occasional taxonomic category placed between a subfamily and a genus or between a suborder and a family and usually containing several genera.

Slang Dictionary

tribe definition

n.
a group of friends or relatives. : When are you and your tribe going to come for a visit?

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Tribe definition

a collection of families descending from one ancestor. The "twelve tribes" of the Hebrews were the twelve collections of families which sprang from the sons of Jacob. In Matt. 24:30 the word has a wider significance. The tribes of Israel are referred to as types of the spiritual family of God (Rev. 7). (See ISRAEL, KINGDOM OF ØT0001909; JUDAH, KINGDOM OF.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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