tribe
tribe is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak.
- 2.(Bot.) A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order and genus.family is between order and genus.
- 3.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.
- 4.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.
- 5.(Stock Breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
- 6.To distribute into tribes or classes. [R.] Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed. Abp. Nicolson.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abba
- ancestor
- ancestral
- ancestry
- and
- anthropogeny
- anthropography
- anthropoid
- anthropology
- anthroposophy
- being
- birth
- body
- brother
- civic
- clan
- commonalty
- commonweal
- commonwealth
- community
- consanguinity
- cosmopolitan
- cosmopolite
- creation
- creature
- dad
- dam
- descent
- earthling
- ethnography
- ethnology
- extraction
- family
- father
- fatherhood
- fathership
- fellow
- flesh
- folk
- genealogy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is tribe.
- What is 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 called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is a family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns called?
- What is to distribute into tribes or classes. [R.] Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed. Abp. Nicolson called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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