Clan vs. Tribe

Clannoun

(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.

Clannoun

A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain

Clannoun

Any association of people behaving clannishly, including one's immediate family.

Clannoun

(video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.

Clannoun

A badger colony.

Clannoun

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 of Macdonald.

Clannoun

A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; - sometimes used contemptuously.

Clannoun

group of people related by blood or marriage

Clannoun

a close-knit group of interrelated families, especially in the Scottish Highlands

Clannoun

a large family

Clannoun

a group of people with a strong common interest

Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor.

Tribenoun

A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.

Tribenoun

(anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.

Tribenoun

(zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.

Tribenoun

The collective noun for various animals.

Tribenoun

(taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.

Tribenoun

(stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

Tribeverb

(transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.

Tribenoun

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.

Tribenoun

A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.

Tribenoun

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.

Tribenoun

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.

Tribenoun

A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.

Tribeverb

To distribute into tribes or classes.

Tribenoun

a social division of (usually preliterate) people

Tribenoun

a federation (as of American Indians)

Tribenoun

(biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily

Tribenoun

group of people related by blood or marriage

Tribe

The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant usage of the term is in the discipline of anthropology.