Clan vs Tribe - What's the difference?
clan | tribe |
(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
Any association of people behaving clannishly.
(video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
A badger colony.
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.
To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
* Archbishop Nicolson
Tribe is a synonym of clan.
In anthropology terms the difference between clan and tribe
is that clan is a group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief while tribe is a society larger than a band but smaller than a state.As a verb tribe is
to distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.clan
English
(wikipedia clan)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* clannish * matriclan * patriclanDescendants
* Dutch: (l) * German: (l)tribe
English
(wikipedia tribe)Noun
(en noun)- the Duchess tribe of shorthorns
Derived terms
* tribal * tribeletSee also
* ethnic *Verb
(trib)- Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed .