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tribe

n.

primitive group, ethnic group, society, phratry, clan, totemic unit, family, sib, sept, deme, horde, sorory, class, association; see also race 2.

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Another word for tribe

noun

A group of people sharing common ancestry:

clan, family, house, kindred, lineage, stock. Idioms: flesh and blood, kith and kin. See kin

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A tribe living on the banks of the Nile between Wadi Halfa and Assuan are called Barabra.
The affairs of a tribe were ruled by a council of men past middle age.
In many cases it arranged the assemblies and ceremonial of the tribe; it regulated marriage, descent and relationship; it ordered blood feuds, it prescribed the rites of hospitality and so on.
Josephus suggests, and Jerome, apparently following him, affirms, that the name is identical with that of the Ishmaelite tribe of Nebaioth (Gen.
South of the Drin is another complex mountain system, including the highlands inhabited by the Mirdites and the Mat tribe; among the principal summits are Deia Mazzuklit, Mal-i Vels, Kraba, Toli and Mnela.

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