Phratry

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  • noun. A kinship group constituting an intermediate division in the primitive structure of the Hellenic tribe or phyle, consisting of several patrilinear clans, and surviving in classical times as a territorial subdivision in the political and military organization of the Athenian state.
  • noun. An exogamous subdivision of the tribe, constituting two or more related clans.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A brotherhood or clan; specifically, in the states of ancient Greece, a politico-religious group of citizens, which appears to have been originally based on kinship and to have been a subdivision of the phyle or tribe.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.
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  • noun. people descended from a common ancestor
    • Word Usage
    "Membership in a brotherhood called a phratry was desirable but probably not a necessary condition of citizenship."
    Hypernym
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    ancestry  blood  blood line  bloodline  descent  
    Hyponym
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    dynasty  gens  homefolk  house  name  
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    clachan  clansman  clothesbrush  houseand  kye  
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