tribe
English
Etymology
From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹaɪb/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪb
Noun
tribe (plural tribes)
- A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
- The collective noun for various animals.
- (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
- (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
- the Duchess tribe of shorthorns
Translations
group of people
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Verb
tribe (third-person singular simple present tribes, present participle tribing, simple past and past participle tribed)
- (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
- Archbishop Nicolson
- Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.
- Archbishop Nicolson
See also
- ethnic
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtriːb(ə)/, /ˈtriːbu/
Noun
tribe (plural tribus)
- One of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- (rare) Any tribe or kin group.
- (rare) A league or grouping.
Descendants
- English: tribe
References
- “trībe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-03.
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