tribe
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tribe (plural tribes)
- A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 26:
- The thought of spending a year in close company with twitchers chilled me to the core. Not that I have anything against them, I am terribly fond of the members of the tribe, it is just that basically, they are a bunch of obsessive freaks.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
- (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
- (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
- The collective noun for various animals.
- (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
- the Duchess tribe of shorthorns
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
group of people
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VerbEdit
tribe (third-person singular simple present tribes, present participle tribing, simple past and past participle tribed)
- (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
- 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library
- Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.
- 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library
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AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tribe (plural tribus)
- One of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- (rare) Any tribe or kin group.
- (rare) A league or grouping.
DescendantsEdit
- English: tribe
ReferencesEdit
- “trībe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.