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- Dictionarytribe/trʌɪb/
noun
- 1. a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader: "indigenous Indian tribes" Similar
- 2. a taxonomic category that ranks above genus and below family or subfamily, usually ending in -ini (in zoology) or -eae (in botany).
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a group of people, often of related families, who live together, sharing the same language, culture, and history, especially those who do not live in towns or cities: a tribe of Amazonian Indians. the Masai tribe. informal. a large family or other group that someone belongs to:
How to use tribe in a sentence. a social group composed chiefly of numerous families, clans, or generations having a shared ancestry and language… See the full definition
A tribe is a traditional social group of people. Most tribes have existed much longer than existing states and countries.
Tribe definition: any group of people, typically a subdivision of a nation or an ethnic group, that is united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, shared customs and traditions, recognition of the same leader or leaders, etc.; a group of related clans. See examples of TRIBE used in a sentence.
Definition of tribe noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Tribes of Madhya Pradesh, India. Men of the Shkreli tribe at the feast of Saint Nicholas at Bzheta in Shkreli territory, Albania, 1908. The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology.
a group of people, often of related families, who live together, sharing the same language, culture, and history, especially those who do not live in towns or cities: a tribe of Amazonian Indians. the Masai tribe. informal. a large family or other group that someone belongs to:
1. 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. 2. A political, ethnic, or ancestral division of ancient states and cultures, especially: a.
The twelve tribes of Israel were descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. Sometimes Offensive. a group of Indigenous people sharing the same ethnicity, language, territory, customs, history, etc.: now often referred to as a nation. the current entry.
TRIBE meaning: 1 : a group of people that includes many families and relatives who have the same language, customs, and beliefs; 2 : a large family usually singular.
