tribal
Of or relating to tribes.
Example
“social order through tribal law”
Other meanings
Based on or organized according to tribes.
“a tribal society”
Incorporating designs or styles typical of an indigenous people.
“tribal techno music”
Related words
- nontribal
- pretribal
- subtribal
- tribalesque
- tribality
- tribalization
- tribalize
- tribally
- untribal
- tribal chief
- tribal tattoo
- tribalism
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "tribālis".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “tribal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.