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Intratribal and Tribe Definitions

Intratribal

Within a tribe.

Tribe

A unit of sociopolitical organization consisting of a number of families, clans, or other groups who share a common ancestry and culture and among whom leadership is typically neither formalized nor permanent.

Tribe

Any of the three divisions of the ancient Romans, namely, the Latin, Sabine, and Etruscan.

Tribe

Any of the 12 divisions of ancient Israel.

Tribe

A phyle of ancient Greece.
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Tribe

A group of people sharing an occupation, interest, or habit
A tribe of graduate students.

Tribe

(Informal) A large family.

Tribe

(Biology) A taxonomic category ranking below a family or subfamily and above a genus and usually containing several genera.

Tribe

An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may be contained within a nation). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.

Tribe

(synecdoche) A tribal nation or people.
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Tribe

(pejorative) A nation or people in an area considered culturally primitive, such as Africa, Australia or Native America.

Tribe

A socially cohesive group of people within a society

Tribe

(zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.

Tribe

(taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.

Tribe

The collective noun for various animals.

Tribe

(stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
The Duchess tribe of shorthorns

Tribe

(transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.

Tribe

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.
A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe.

Tribe

A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.

Tribe

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

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

A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.

Tribe

To distribute into tribes or classes.
Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.

Tribe

A social division of (usually preliterate) people

Tribe

A federation (as of American Indians)

Tribe

(biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily

Tribe

Group of people related by blood or marriage

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