TRIBE
\tɹˈa͡ɪb], \tɹˈaɪb], \t_ɹ_ˈaɪ_b]\
Definitions of TRIBE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
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A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
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A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
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A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
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A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
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To distribute into tribes or classes.
By Oddity Software
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A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
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A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
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A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
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A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
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A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
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To distribute into tribes or classes.
By Noah Webster.
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A family, race, or clan descended from a common ancestor; a group of uncivilized people under one chief; as, a Tartar tribe; a group of people made akin to each other by some common trait.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In biological classification, an occasional division between the family and the genus; usually the same as the subfamily.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A race or family from the same ancestor: a body of people under one leader: a number of things having certain common qualities.
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TRIBAL.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A family, race, or series of generations descending from the same progenitor and kept distinct; a division or distinct class of a people; a number of plants or animals having qualities in common; a division; a nation of savages; a number of persons of any character or profession, in contempt.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A family or race existing distinct from others; any class or distinct portion of a people; a number of things having certain common characteristics; a division between order and genus; a group of genera subordinate to an order; a body of rude or savage people under one chief.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] A family, race, or series of generations descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel; –a number of things having certain characters or resemblances in common; –a nation of savages or uncivilized people united under one leader or government; –any division, class, or distinct portion of people or persons.
