Definition of Tribe

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Definition of Tribe

Tribe

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.

A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.

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.

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.

A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.

To distribute into tribes or classes.

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Tribe Quotations

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
Ambrose Bierce

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
Sitting Bull

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
Giacomo Casanova

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
Jared Diamond

Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.
John H. Speke

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
Stanislav Grof

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
Arthur Keith

Tribe Translations

tribe in Afrikaans is stam
tribe in Dutch is stam, volksstam, geslacht
tribe in French is souche, peuplade
tribe in German is Sitte, Stamm
tribe in Latin is gens
tribe in Spanish is tribu
tribe in Swedish is folkstam, stam

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