Definition of tribes Tribes
/tɹajˈbz/ - [traybz] -
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What does tribes mean?
Wiktionary 
- tribes (Noun)
Plural of tribe.
Part of speech
🔤- tribes, noun, plural of tribe.
WordNet
NounPlural: tribes |
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| tribe - a federation (as of American Indians) | ||
| federation of tribes | ||
| nation the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" | ||
| the states, u.s.a., united states of america, us, america, u.s., united states, usa North America and South America and Central America | ||
| tribe - (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily | ||
| taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group animal or plant group having natural relations | ||
| family primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" | ||
| biological science, biology the science that studies living organisms | ||
| bovini, tribe bovini term not used technically; essentially coextensive with genus Bos | ||
| tribe - a social division of (usually preliterate) people | ||
| folk | ||
| social group people sharing some social relation | ||
| tribe - group of people related by blood or marriage | ||
| kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan | ||
| social group people sharing some social relation | ||
| mishpachah, mishpocha (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha" | ||
| family unit, family primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" | ||
| folks your parents; "he wrote to his folks every day" | ||
| family tree, genealogy the study or investigation of ancestry and family history | ||
| totem emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians) | ||
| tribes of israel, twelve tribes of israel twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob | ||
| relative, relation an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | ||
| clan member, clansman, clanswoman a member of a clan | ||
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Wiktionary
- tribe (Noun)
A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people. - tribe (Noun)
A society larger than a band but smaller than a state. - tribe (Noun)
The collective noun for various animals. - tribe (Noun)
A hierarchal rank between family and genus. - tribe (Verb)
To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- tribe (n.)
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. - tribe (n.)
A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. - tribe (n.)
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. - 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. - tribe (n.)
A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns. - tribe (v. t.)
To distribute into tribes or classes.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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tribe
Group of people linked by the same linguistic and cultural traditions that usually live far from urban areas and practice their own legal rules and have their own political system.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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tribe
trīb, n. an aggregate of stocks—a stock being an aggregate of persons considered to be kindred—or an aggregate of families, forming a community usually under the government of a chief: a number of things having certain common qualities.—adj. Trib′al.—n. Trib′alism.—adv. Trib′ally.—ns. Tribe′let; Tribes′man. [L. tribus, orig. applied to one of the three divisions of the ancient Roman people—tri-, tres, three.]
Wikipedia 
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A tribe is a small group of people who live and work together. A tribe can be a collection of families or may have families and individual people living together.
It is necessary to do work to keep people alive, and a tribe usually divides up the jobs that need to be done amongst themselves.
In today's world people think of tribes as being from a far distant time in the past when people did not live in cities yet and there were no nations. There are still tribal groups in existence all over the world but their numbers are getting smaller and smaller.
Part of speech
🔤- tribe, noun, singular of tribes.
