Usually means: Social group with common ancestry.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tribe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tribe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tribe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tribe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tribe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tribe, tribe: Wordnik
  7. tribe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tribe: Wiktionary
  9. tribe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tribe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tribe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Tribe: Dictionary.com
  13. tribe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Tribe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tribe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. tribe: Rhymezone
  18. tribe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tribe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. tribe: Free Dictionary
  21. tribe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. tribe: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. tribe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. tribe: Dictionary.com
  25. tribe: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tribe: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tribe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tribe (biology): Medical dictionary
  4. -tribe: Medical dictionary
  5. tribe: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tribe: Africa Glossary
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tribe: Easton Bible

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. Bird On! (No longer online)
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  6. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  7. tribe: Anthropological Terms
  8. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tribe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tribe, the tribe: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (history, anthropology) An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may constitute a nation with other tribes). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.
noun:  (synecdochically) A tribal nation or people.
noun:  (informal, derogatory) A nation or people considered culturally primitive, as may be the case in Africa, Australia or Native America.
noun:  A socially cohesive group of people within a society.
noun:  A class or group of things.
noun:  (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
noun:  (taxonomy) A hierarchical rank between family and genus.
noun:  A group of affiliated Mardi Gras Indians.
noun:  The collective noun for various animals.
noun:  (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
verb:  (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
noun:  A surname.

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