Tribe vs Wickiup - What's the difference?
tribe | wickiup |
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
A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.
* 1992 , Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses :
As nouns the difference between tribe and wickiup
is that tribe is a socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people while wickiup is a domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic native american tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western united states.As a verb tribe
is to distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.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 .
Anagrams
* English collective nounswickiup
English
(wikipedia wickiup)Noun
(en noun)- At that time there were still indians camped on the western plains and late in the day he passed in his riding a scattered group of their wickiups propped upon that scoured and trembling waste.