Antonyms for Tribe
traɪbtribe

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1. tribe

   A community is in general terms the aggregate of persons inhabiting any territory in common and viewed as having common interests; a commonwealth is such a body of persons having a common government, especially a republican government; as, the commonwealth of Massachusetts. A community may be very small; a commonwealth is ordinarily of considerable extent. A people is the aggregate of any public community, either in distinction from their rulers or as including them; a race is a division of mankind in the line of origin and ancestry; the people of the United States includes members of almost every race. The use of people as signifying persons collectively, as in the statement "The hall was full of people," has been severely criticized, but is old and accepted English, and may fitly be classed as idiomatic, and often better than persons, by reason of its collectivism. As Dean Alford suggests, it would make a strange transformation of the old hymn "All people that on earth do dwell" to sing "All persons that on earth do dwell." A state is an organized political community considered in its corporate capacity as "a body politic and corporate;" as, a legislative act is the act of the state; every citizen is entitled to the protection of the state. A nation is an organized political community considered with reference to the persons composing it as having certain definite boundaries, a definite number of citizens, etc. The members of a people are referred to as persons or individuals; the individual members of a state or nation are called citizens or subjects. The population of a country is simply the aggregate of persons residing within its borders, without reference to race, organization, or allegiance; unnaturalized residents form part of the population, but not of the nation, possessing none of the rights and being subject to none of the duties of citizens. In American usage State signifies one commonwealth of the federal union known as the United States. Tribe is now almost wholly applied to rude peoples with very imperfect political organization; as, the Indian tribes; nomadic tribes. Compare MOB.

   Synonyms:
   commonwealth, community, nation, people, population, race, state

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1. tribe, folknoun

   a social division of (usually preliterate) people

   Synonyms:
   common people, kinfolk, kindred, family line, clan, kinsfolk, kin group, family, sept, folks, tribe, folk, kinship group, folk music, federation of tribes, kin, phratry, ethnic music

2. tribe, federation of tribesnoun

   a federation (as of American Indians)

   Synonyms:
   kin, kindred, kin group, tribe, federation of tribes, clan, folk, kinship group

3. tribenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   kindred, kin, kinship group, clan, kin group, folk, federation of tribes

4. kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribenoun

   group of people related by blood or marriage

   Synonyms:
   kin, kindred, kinsperson, tribe, family, clan, federation of tribes, folk, kinship group, kin group

How to use Tribe in a sentence?

1. Howard Watts:

   It's something that is still deeply hurtful, there are still members of the Washoe Tribe and others who know exactly what it means when Washoe Tribe goes off.

2. Robert Maxim:

   It's worth underscoring how absurd it is that the descendants of the tribe that met Pilgrims, who every American learns about around this time of year, couldn't meet the definition of a' tribe,' it's just a perfect illustration of how messed up, and really, anti-Native, federal Indian policy has been throughout our history.

3. Sarah Shepherd:

   What I think is really interesting about accents, mainly, is they kind of assign us immediately to a tribe, but they are this ever-changing social history as we're walking about -- what we've been through as well as what we want to get to, i personally change my accent all the time. Sometimes I do it just to mess with waiters by ordering every course in a different accent.

4. Charles Moreau:

   It wasn't easy with Arabic and Farsi but it's another ball game with dialects like Tamachek (spoken by the Tuareg tribe in Mali and other parts of Africa).

5. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.

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