Crossword-Solution: TRIBE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tribe | n. | A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. |
| Tribe | n. | A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. |
| Tribe | n. | A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe. |
| Tribe | n. | A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes. |
| Tribe | n. | A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns. |
| Tribe | v. t. | To distribute into tribes or classes. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TRIBE | anagram | BITER, BREIT, BRITE, BTIER, IBERT, TIBER |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TRIBE (5)
Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates, for these are the Piccaninny tribe, and not to be confused with the softer-hearted Delawares or the Hurons.
Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin.
The whole tribe of decorous personages, who had never heretofore been seen with a single hair of their heads awry, would start into public view with the disorder of a nightmare in their aspects.
Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson.
But with the tenacity and indomitable courage of his kind he still faced his cruel and relentless foes—the personification of that ancient proverb of his tribe: “Leave to a Thark his head and one hand and he may yet conquer.” As he saw me enter, a grim smile touched those grim lips of his, but whether the smile signified relief or merely amusement at the sight of my own bloody and dishevelled condition I do not know.
Quotes with TRIBE (3)
In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as 150 years ago we did not include blacks. So African human beings could be captured, shipped to America, and sold. In Australia white settlers regarded Aborigines as a pest and hunted them down, much as kangaroos are hunted down t…
If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember — their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into — or remain — whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 292 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).