tribe   (Sound)

The noun tribe has 4 senses

• tribe, folk -- (a social division of (usually preliterate) people)


• tribe, federation of tribes -- (a federation (as of American Indians))


• tribe -- ((biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily)


• kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe -- (group of people related by blood or marriage)