Native vs tribe

Native

noun
  • A Native American. 

  • An Aborigine. 

  • An aboriginal inhabitant of a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.) 

adj
  • Aboriginal; of or relating to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines. 

  • Aboriginal to a colonized region, especially one colonized by English-speaking people. (Compare native, which is more general.) 

  • Related to black Africans, especially Bantu. 

  • Indian: Native American or First Nation; of or relating to (North) American Indians. 

tribe

noun
  • A tribal nation or people. 

  • An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may be contained within a nation). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity. 

  • A hierarchal rank between family and genus. 

  • A socially cohesive group of people within a society 

  • A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line. 

  • The collective noun for various animals. 

  • A group of apes who live and work together. 

  • A nation or people in an area considered culturally primitive, such as Africa, Australia or Native America. 

verb
  • To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize. 

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