Definitions for phratry

phratry phra·try

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IPA: /ˈfreɪ tri/

Phratry is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in phratry (ahprrty).

Definitions for phratry

noun

  1. a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
  2. (in ancient Greece) a subdivision of a phyle.

Origin of phratry

1745-55; Greek phrātría, equivalent to phrātr-, stem of phrātḗr clansman (akin to brother) + -ia -y3

Examples for phratry

They were in both phratries; the other totems were confined to one or the other phratry.

Some members of the Wolf phratry assert a right to the Eagle crest.

A person would be described as of such a gens, phratry, and tribe.

It was the basis of the phratry, of the tribe, and of the confederacy of tribes.

The Mexican phratry was largely concerned with military matters.

It is somewhat difficult to understand just what the rights and duties of a phratry were.

Each class has a choice between the two classes of the other phratry.

In other words, the phratry is like a species of which the clans are varieties.

The mother gens was distinguished from these as the phratry.

It is true that in both cases the offer must come from the other phratry.

Word Value for phratry
Scrable

15

Words with friends

14

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