noun. 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.

noun. A political, ethnic, or ancestral division of ancient states and cultures, especially.

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

noun. Any of the 12 divisions of ancient Israel.

noun. A phyle of ancient Greece.

noun. A group of people sharing an occupation, interest, or habit.

noun. A large family.

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

To distribute into tribes or classes.

noun. In Roman history, one of the three patrician orders, or original political divisions of the people of ancient Rome, the Ramnes, Tities, and Luceres, representing respectively, according to tradition, the separate Latin, Sabine, and Etruscan settlements, having at their union equal representation in the senate, and retaining their distinctive names for several centuries.

noun. Any one of the similar divisions of a race or nation common in antiquity, whether of natural or of political origin: as, the tribes (φυλαι) of Athens.

noun. Specifically, a division of a barbarous race of people, usually distinguishable in some way from their congeners, united into a community under a recognized head or chief, ruling either independently or subordinately.

noun. Any class or body of persons taken collectively; any aggregate of individuals of a kind, either as a united body or as distinguished by some common characteristic or occupation.

noun. A family of cattle having a common female ancestor.

noun. In zoology and botany, a classificatory group of uncertain taxonomic rank, above a genus, and usually below an order; loosely, any group or series of animals: as, the furry, feathery, or finny tribes; the cat tribe.

transitive verb. To distribute into tribes or classes.

noun. 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.

noun. A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common.

noun. A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government.

noun. A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated.

noun. A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

noun. A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.

noun. A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.

noun. The collective noun for various animals.

noun. A hierarchal rank between family and genus.

verb. To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.

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

noun. a social division of (usually preliterate) people

noun. a federation (as of American Indians)

noun. group of people related by blood or marriage

"Economy was a part of her nature, and besides that she meant to show them that she was perfectly independent of the whole tribe; the _tribe_ and _them_ referring to the hired girls alone, for she knew no one else in town."

Collective nouns  ethnic  the lost tribes  

tribal  tribelet  

nation  

Scribe  ascribe  bribe  circumscribe  describe  

God  army  colony  district  family  

age group  animal kingdom  band  battalion  bevy