TRIBAL SOCIETY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A society with the social organization of a tribe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("tribal society" is a kind of...):

society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tribal society"):

hunting and gathering society; hunting and gathering tribe (group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic)