“The tribe is really made of people who put travel as a priority in their entire lifestyle,” says Evita.
A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.
Tiger Lily and her tribe, however, were outfitted in semi-realistic outfits (read: nearly naked).
As the bill failed in the Senate, a pigtailed member of the Lakota Sioux tribe stood up in the gallery and began chanting.
They agreed to let McKell and Moss join their tribe for a few days.
His name was Joseph and he belonged to the tribe of the Hebrews.
He sat in the midst of a circle of lamplighters, and was the cacique, or chief of the tribe.
But we saw afterward that it was for the tribe, and for our wrong the tribe suffered.
The Medicine Bundle of the tribe is as sacred to them as our flag is to us.
All that is left of the Cheyenne Bundle is now with the remnant of the tribe in Oklahoma.
mid-13c., "one of the twelve divisions of the ancient Hebrews," from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus "one of the three political/ethnic divisions of the original Roman state" (Tites, Ramnes, and Luceres, corresponding, perhaps, to the Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans), later, one of the 30 political divisions instituted by Servius Tullius (increased to 35 in 241 B.C.E.), perhaps from tri- "three" + *bhu-, root of the verb be. Others connect the word with the root of Welsh tref "town, inhabited place."
In the Biblical sense, which was the original one in English, the Latin word translates Greek phyle "race or tribe of men, body of men united by ties of blood and descent, a clan" (see physic). Extension to any ethnic group or race of people is first recorded 1590s.
tribe (trīb)
n.
An occasional taxonomic category placed between a subfamily and a genus or between a suborder and a family and usually containing several genera.
noun
One's group of friends or relatives: dreading the tribe coming for New Year's
