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Tribe

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.

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Family 76% connected

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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Folks 76% connected

In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.

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Genealogy 76% connected

An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succ…

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Phyle 76% connected

A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.

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Totem 76% connected

A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.

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Nation 76% connected

A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.

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Tribal 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter.

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Tribal 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter.

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Family 70% connected

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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Maya 70% connected

The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.

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Moiety 70% connected

One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation.

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Relation 70% connected

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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Relative 70% connected

Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

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Clan 92% connected

A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan…

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Folk 92% connected

Alt. of Folks

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kin 92% connected

A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

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Kindred 92% connected

Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.

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