Definition of tribe

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Tribe (n.) 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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Utes :: Utes (n. pl.) An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians..
Edda :: Edda (n.) The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes..
Delawares :: Delawares (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory..
Judahite :: Judahite (n.) One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew.
Class :: Class (n.) A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc..
Phylarch :: Phylarch (n.) The chief of a phyle, or tribe..
Assegai :: Assegai (n.) A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin..
Phryganeides :: Phryganeides (n. pl.) A tribe of neuropterous insects which includes the caddice flies; -- called also Trichoptera. See Trichoptera.
Phylarchy :: Phylarchy (n.) The office of a phylarch; government of a class or tribe.
Zu/is :: Zu/is (n. pl.) A tribe of Pueblo Indians occupying a village in New Mexico, on the Zu/i River..
Miamis :: Miamis (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.
Buprestidan :: Buprestidan (n.) One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees..
Bigential :: Bigential (a.) Including two tribes or races of men.
Yumas :: Yumas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc..
Squawberry :: Squaw (n.) A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup..
Siphonostomata :: Siphonostomata (n. pl.) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood..
Alemannic :: Alemannic (a.) Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes..
Monopode :: Monopode (n.) One of a fabulous tribe or race of Ethiopians having but one leg and foot.
Sigmodont :: Sigmodont (n.) Any one of a tribe (Sigmodontes) of rodents which includes all the indigenous rats and mice of America. So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively.
Clan :: Clan (n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald..
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