Definitions for tribe

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tribe tribe

Spelling: [trahyb]

IPA: /traɪb/

Tribe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in tribe (beirt).

Definitions for tribe

noun

1. any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.
2. a local division of an aboriginal people.
3. a division of some other people.
4. a class or type of animals, plants, articles, or the like.
5. Animal Husbandry. a group of animals, especially cattle, descended through the female line from a common female ancestor.
6. Biology. a category in the classification of organisms usually between a subfamily and a genus or sometimes between a suborder and a family. any group of plants or animals.
7. a company, group, or number of persons.
8. a class or set of persons, especially one with strong common traits or interests.
9. a large family.
10. Roman History. any one of three divisions of the people representing the Latin, Sabine, and Etruscan settlements. any of the later political divisions of the people.
11. Greek History. a phyle.

Origin of tribe

1200-50; Middle English Latin tribus tribe, orig., each of the three divisions of the Roman people; often taken as derivative of trēs three, though formation unclear

Examples for tribe

“The tribe is really made of people who put travel as a priority in their entire lifestyle,” says Evita.

A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.

All that is left of the Cheyenne Bundle is now with the remnant of the tribe in Oklahoma.

The Medicine Bundle of the tribe is as sacred to them as our flag is to us.

They agreed to let McKell and Moss join their tribe for a few days.

His name was Joseph and he belonged to the tribe of the Hebrews.

But we saw afterward that it was for the tribe, and for our wrong the tribe suffered.

He sat in the midst of a circle of lamplighters, and was the cacique, or chief of the tribe.

As the bill failed in the Senate, a pigtailed member of the Lakota Sioux tribe stood up in the gallery and began chanting.

Tiger Lily and her tribe, however, were outfitted in semi-realistic outfits (read: nearly naked).