Etymology : Middle English, from Latin tribus, a division of the Roman people, tribe
Pronunciation : 'trIb
Function : noun
Date : 13th century
1. social group comprising people united by a common denominator (usually ancestry, tradition, leadership, etc.), clan, people; group. tribe\tribe\ , n. [l. tribus, originally, a third part of the roman people, afterwards, a division of the people, a tribe; of uncertain origin: cf. f. tribu.].
2. 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. "the lion of the tribe of juda." v.
3. a wealthy hebrew of my tribe.
4. (bot.) a number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.note: by many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order and genus.
5. a nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the six nations; the seneca tribe.
6. a division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of athens was divided into ten tribes.
7. (stock breeding) a family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the duchess tribe of shorthorns.tribe \tribe\, v. t. to distribute into tribes or classes. [r.] our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed. nicolson. [tribe n.
8. a social division of (usually preliterate) people [syn: folk].
9. a federation (as of american indians) [syn: federation of tribes ].
10. (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily.
11. group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin, kin group , kinship group, kindred, clan]tribe a collection of families descending from one ancestor. the "twelve tribes" of the hebrews were the twelve collections of families which sprang from the sons of jacob. in matt. 24:30 the word has a wider significance. the tribes of israel are referred to as types of the spiritual family of god (rev. 7). (see:
israel, kingdom of; judah, kingdom of.).
12. 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.
13. A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
14. A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
15. A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
16. A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
17. To distribute into tribes or classes. a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily a federation a social division of people.
18. 1. Tribe is sometimes used to refer to a group of people of the same race, language, and customs, especially in a developing country. Some people disapprove of this use. three-hundred members of the Xhosa tribe.
19. You can use tribe to refer to a group of people who are all doing the same thing or who all behave in the same way. tribes of talented young people. Any of a variety of social units, including some defined by unilineal descent and some defined by ethnic origin. Cultural anthropologists now usually apply the term to a unit of social organization that is culturally homogeneous and consists of multiple kinship groups such as the family, lineage, or clan that prohibit marriages within themselves but endorse or require marriages with persons of the other kinship groups. (See exogamy and endogamy.) Most tribes are organized as unitary political entities, within which people share a common language and culture. Some tribes are spread across large territories, and individual members may never meet or know all of the others. Some are small groups, confined to a limited territory, sometimes a single small island, within which everyone knows everyone else very well. What unites societies of such diverse scales as being "tribal" is their own internal sense of "being a single people," but anthropologists would add a people that lacks the equipment of citizenship, a constitution, or a formalized legal system that would define them as a nation-state. Throughout most of the history of modern cultural anthropology, the terms tribe and primitive were usually linked; however, in recent years primitive has been avoided by most anthropologists because it appears to carry with it an unintended judgment of the moral or technological development of a people. See also ethnic group. (Greek, phylai; Roman, tribus) In ancient Greece and Rome, any of a group of political and demographic subdivisions of the population. In Greece the groups divided into tribes were distinct by location, dialect, and tradition, and they included the Ionians, Dorians, Achaeans, and Aetolians. In Attica, Cleisthenes replaced the 4 Ionian tribes with 10 new tribes, each of which was named after a local hero; these came to develop political and civic functions, including the election of magistrates. The demes developed out of the tribal system. In Rome the tribes formed the 3 (later 4, and still later 35) original divisions of Roman citizens. These were the basis of military levies, property tax, census taking, and voting units in political assemblies.
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