TRIBE


Meaning of TRIBE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

different

Sometimes they are organized on a tribal basis, sometimes they embrace people from a number of different tribes .

But we had one thing-that was unity and friendship amongst sixty-four different tribes ....

germanic

While the Germanic tribes were not always engaged in warfare, they were in a state of constant preparation for it.

Unlike many of the Germanic tribes from whom they exacted tribute, these Asiatics had no permanent homes and no kings.

large

As groupings became larger , tribes or bands were formed on the basis of more extensive kinship ties.

local

Najibullah, who belonged to the local Ahmedzai tribe , flew to Gardez on Oct. 7 to bolster morale.

I've seen this buzzard mobbed by other members of the local crow tribe , the rooks, plenty of times before.

native

They were almost certainly endowed with highly developed sensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remaining native tribes alive today.

nomadic

To the east of Frisia were the pagan Saxons, a diffuse and essentially nomadic conglomeration of tribes .

The second type of horsemen are wild horse archers recruited from the nomadic tribes of the Kislev steppes.

The impact on the 35 nomadic tribes who are known to live in the region drained by the Mamberamo will be immense.

other

Some of the settlements were surrounded by ditches and fences and could be fiercely defended against other warring tribes .

People usually make such declarations of opposition to other lineages, other tribes - not to entities which claim superiority.

primitive

Even primitive tribes when dancing submit to the discipline imposed by their leaders.

The ill are no longer ostracized as moral pariahs except by a few remaining primitive tribes ruled by superstition.

To primitive tribes a head, stuck on a pole at the village boundary, averted evil and brought luck.

The law of the survival of the fitted governed not only primitive tribes , but the civilized cultures of the ancient world.

First, of course, you have to locate your most primitive tribe .

Iii any primitive tribe , rule by male fighters is the most natural form of government.

small

The smallest tribes would get 250; the largest, well over 1,000.

The smaller tribes have long been influenced through political and cultural domination by the stronger Mende and Temne tribes.

Azhag's career of carnage began when he was chieftain of a small Orc tribe from the Troll country.

The peaty lowlands were still mainly marshland. Small families or tribes hunted and hid in huts in the forest.

various

Ishmael suggests that various primitive tribes and various religions have always looked upon the sea as something mysterious and deep.

They could not control the Army, let alone the various tribes .

■ VERB

belong

Until 40 years ago, the Chittagong Hill Tracts were inhabited almost exclusively by people belonging to 13 tribes .

Zarathustra belonged to a pastoral tribe in northern Persia.

They belonged to tribes , nations and religions.

He belongs to a minority tribe , the Karen, and in a Buddhist land he follows a minority religion.

live

In bad times the stream vanished completely, and the tribe lived in the shadow of thirst.

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

There is a tribe of beetles that specializes in feeding on bitter plants.

Western Australian tribes

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

In recent years, the tribe had been badly affected by diseases brought in by prospecting miners.

The tribe danced for three days in the hope that the Great Spirits would send them rain.

The tribes which inhabit the Upper Hunter and the adjacent parts of the colony are extremely harmless and well disposed.

The Ghond tribe would only accept food from a Ghond cook.

There, capitalism dissolved social differentiation - families, castes, clans, tribes, provinces, religions, gender, nationality.

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