Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Tribe (-s)
tribe (-s), n. [ME tribu.]
- Clan; extended family; group of people; relatives who live together; those who share common traditions, ancestors, and homelands; [fig.] family groups in a cemetery plot.
- House of Israel (see Exodus 16:31); twelve family groups that descended from the patriarch Jacob and his wives (see Genesis 49).
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