noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Sometimes they are organized on a tribal basis, sometimes they embrace people from a number of different tribes .
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But we had one thing-that was unity and friendship amongst sixty-four different tribes ....
germanic
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While the Germanic tribes were not always engaged in warfare, they were in a state of constant preparation for it.
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Unlike many of the Germanic tribes from whom they exacted tribute, these Asiatics had no permanent homes and no kings.
large
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As groupings became larger , tribes or bands were formed on the basis of more extensive kinship ties.
local
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Najibullah, who belonged to the local Ahmedzai tribe , flew to Gardez on Oct. 7 to bolster morale.
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I've seen this buzzard mobbed by other members of the local crow tribe , the rooks, plenty of times before.
native
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They were almost certainly endowed with highly developed sensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remaining native tribes alive today.
nomadic
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To the east of Frisia were the pagan Saxons, a diffuse and essentially nomadic conglomeration of tribes .
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The second type of horsemen are wild horse archers recruited from the nomadic tribes of the Kislev steppes.
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The impact on the 35 nomadic tribes who are known to live in the region drained by the Mamberamo will be immense.
other
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Some of the settlements were surrounded by ditches and fences and could be fiercely defended against other warring tribes .
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People usually make such declarations of opposition to other lineages, other tribes - not to entities which claim superiority.
primitive
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Even primitive tribes when dancing submit to the discipline imposed by their leaders.
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The ill are no longer ostracized as moral pariahs except by a few remaining primitive tribes ruled by superstition.
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To primitive tribes a head, stuck on a pole at the village boundary, averted evil and brought luck.
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The law of the survival of the fitted governed not only primitive tribes , but the civilized cultures of the ancient world.
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First, of course, you have to locate your most primitive tribe .
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Iii any primitive tribe , rule by male fighters is the most natural form of government.
small
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The smallest tribes would get 250; the largest, well over 1,000.
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The smaller tribes have long been influenced through political and cultural domination by the stronger Mende and Temne tribes.
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Azhag's career of carnage began when he was chieftain of a small Orc tribe from the Troll country.
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The peaty lowlands were still mainly marshland. Small families or tribes hunted and hid in huts in the forest.
various
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Ishmael suggests that various primitive tribes and various religions have always looked upon the sea as something mysterious and deep.
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They could not control the Army, let alone the various tribes .
■ VERB
belong
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Until 40 years ago, the Chittagong Hill Tracts were inhabited almost exclusively by people belonging to 13 tribes .
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Zarathustra belonged to a pastoral tribe in northern Persia.
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They belonged to tribes , nations and religions.
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He belongs to a minority tribe , the Karen, and in a Buddhist land he follows a minority religion.
live
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In bad times the stream vanished completely, and the tribe lived in the shadow of thirst.
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Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-dried mud bricks known as adobe.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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There is a tribe of beetles that specializes in feeding on bitter plants.
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Western Australian tribes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In recent years, the tribe had been badly affected by diseases brought in by prospecting miners.
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The tribe danced for three days in the hope that the Great Spirits would send them rain.
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The tribes which inhabit the Upper Hunter and the adjacent parts of the colony are extremely harmless and well disposed.
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The Ghond tribe would only accept food from a Ghond cook.
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There, capitalism dissolved social differentiation - families, castes, clans, tribes, provinces, religions, gender, nationality.