tribe
tribe is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
- transitive verb. To distribute into tribes or classes.
- noun. group of people related by blood or marriage
- noun. (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
- noun. a federation (as of American Indians)
- noun. a social division of (usually preliterate) people
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tribe:
berit, biter, brite, ibert, tiber
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