

Definition of Tribe


  1. 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.
  2. A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
  6. To distribute into tribes or classes.

Tribe Quotations

Friedrich Nietzsche

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.
Roger Ebert

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

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.
Mustafa Akyol

I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one who remains - in my case, my mother. How do I make her time smoother, happier? How do I try to ease her, a widow, away from the dark well of grief without dishonoring the necessity of that grief?
Patti Davis
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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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