单词 | tribal |
释义 | tribal (once / 1035 pages) adj Tribal things have something to do with a group or tribe, like Native Americans' tribal land, where certain tribes lived for thousands of years. You might have heard the term "tribal sovereignty" before — it's basically the legal right of indigenous or native people to govern themselves under certain conditions. In the United States, for example, tribal groups are recognized as "domestic dependent nations." Sometimes the adjective tribal is slightly derogatory, but only when it's used to mean "overly loyal to a group." WORD FAMILYtribal: detribalise, detribalize, intertribal, tribalisation, tribalism, tribalization, tribally+/detribalise: detribalisation/detribalize: detribalization, detribalized, detribalizing/tribalism: tribalisms/tribe: tribal, tribes USAGE EXAMPLESA Legislative committee in November voted to halt presentations from Native American tribal leaders and from the state’s chief justice. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The country “was riven with all kinds of ethnic and tribal divisions before we got there. It’s still there.” New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Among the 4,000 sites are fishing and hunting processing areas, ancestral village areas and tribal corridors. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) adj relating to or characteristic of a tribe tribal customs |
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