Definition of phratry Phratry

phra•try

We found 5 definitions of phratry from 5 different sources.

What does phratry mean?

Noun
phratry - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
		family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept
		blood line, ancestry, line of descent, bloodline, parentage, pedigree, stemma, blood, lineage, descent, origin, stock, line inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
		people members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
		homefolk the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day"
		house play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults; "the children were playing house"
		dynasty a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family