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Tribe vs Caddo - What's the difference?

tribe | caddo |

As nouns the difference between tribe and caddo

is that tribe is a socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people while caddo is a member of one of the caddo tribes.

As a verb tribe

is to distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.

As a proper noun caddo is

a confederacy of several southeastern native american tribes, who inhabited much of what is now east texas, western louisiana and portions of southern arkansas and oklahoma in the sixteenth century.

tribe

English

(wikipedia tribe)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.
  • (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
  • The collective noun for various animals.
  • (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
  • (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
  • the Duchess tribe of shorthorns

    Derived terms

    * tribal * tribelet

    See also

    * ethnic *

    Verb

    (trib)
  • To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
  • * Archbishop Nicolson
  • Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed .

    caddo

    English

    (wikipedia Caddo)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A member of one of the Caddo tribes.
  • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A confederacy of several southeastern Native American tribes, who inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma in the sixteenth century.
  • A Caddoan language of the Southern Plains of the United States, spoken by the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.
  • A town in Oklahoma.