Synonyms of the word tribe


TRIBECLAN - FOLK - KIN - KINDRED - NATION - TAXON

tribe

  • n. A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.
  • n. (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
  • n. The collective noun for various animals.
  • n. (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
  • n. (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female…
  • v. (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.

clan

  • n. (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
  • n. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
  • n. Any association of people behaving clannishly, including one's immediate family.
  • n. (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
  • n. A badger colony.

folk

  • adj. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
  • adj. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
  • adj. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
  • n. (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
  • n. The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
  • n. (plural only, plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
  • n. (music) Folk music.
  • n. (plural only) People in general.
  • n. (plural only) A particular group of people.

kin

  • n. Race; family; breed; kind.
  • n. (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
  • n. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
  • n. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
  • n. Kind; sort; manner; way.
  • adj. Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
  • n. A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
  • n. Alternative form of k'in.
  • v. Pronunciation spelling of can.

kindred

  • n. (often plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively; kin.
  • n. (often plural only) People of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.
  • n. (countable) A grouping of relatives.
  • n. A combination of extended family and religious group, of the Ásatrú religious order in America.
  • adj. Of the same nature.

nation

  • n. A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory,…
  • n. (international law) A sovereign state.
  • n. (chiefly historical) An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.
  • n. (obsolete) A great number; a great deal.
  • n. (rare) Damnation.
  • adv. (rare, dialectal) Extremely; very.

taxon

  • n. (taxonomy) Any of the taxonomic categories, such as phylum or subspecies.

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