Phratry is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PHRATRY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a tribal unit among primitive peoples
• a descent group or kinship group in some tribal societies.
• group of people within a tribe who have a common ancestor
• A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.
• people descended from a common ancestor

Words related to PHRATRY

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How to use PHRATRY in a sentence

• The phratry tie was stronger than that of the father and mother.
• The four tribes consisted altogether of gentes and phratries, insomuch that no one could be included in any one of the tribes who was not also a member of some gens and phratry.
• Any man can win a name and rank in the section, gens, phratry, tribe, or nation by bravery in war or by generosity in the bestowal of presents and the frequent giving of feasts.
• In the Kansa tribe two gentes, the Large Hanga and the Small Hanga, form the phratry connected with war, though warriors did not necessarily belong to those gentes alone.
• There is no doubt, however, that in the earlier villages each gens, and where practicable, the whole of the phratry, built their houses together.
• There are very few representatives of this phratry existing now, and very little tradition extant concerning its early history.
• The Horn House is so called because tradition connects this village with some of the people of the Horn phratry of the Hopituh or Tusayan.

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