tribe
[noun]
Synonyms: race, clan, family, people

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English Thesaurus: race, nation, people, tribe, ethnic group, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

tribe /traɪb/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Latin; Origin: tribus 'group within the Roman people, tribe']

1. a social group consisting of people of the same race who have the same beliefs, customs, language etc, and usually live in one particular area ruled by their leader:
a tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People

2. a group of people with the same interests – used especially to show disapproval:
tribes of journalists

3. a group of related animals or plants:
the cat tribe

4. humorous a large family:
We were only expecting Jack and his wife, but the whole tribe turned up.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

tribe
noun
ADJ. aboriginal, indigenous, native | desert, forest, hill | nomadic | backward, primitive | barbaric, hostile, warring
VERB + TRIBE belong to
PHRASES a member of a tribe

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

race one of the main groups of people in the world, who have the same colour of skin and other physical features:
Everybody should be treated equally regardless of their race or sex.
race relations (=the relationship between people of different races)
nation a country and its people, or a group of people with the same history and language:
Japan has become one of the richest nations in the world.
Our dream is for a united Arab nation.
people the people who belong to a particular country, race, or area. The plural of this meaning of people is peoples:
the American people
the native peoples of the islands
tribe a group of people in a country who are the same race, with the same traditional way of life and the same leader:
a tribe in Papua New Guinea
Bedouin tribes
ethnic group a group of people of the same race, nation, or tribe:
Within Namibia there are more than a dozen different ethnic groups.
the needs of minority ethnic groups

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