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noungroup of people related by blood or marriage
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nouna federation (as of American Indians)
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nouna social division of (usually preliterate) people
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noun(biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamilytype of:
Definition that contains tribe
- child a member of a clan or tribe
- chief the head of a tribe or clan
- nation a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
- israel an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Saul around 1025 BC and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC
- australia a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
- benjamin (Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel
- reuben (Old Testment) a son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel
- tribal relating to or characteristic of a tribe
- apache any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma
- totem a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object