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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tribal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tribal custom
▪ He spoke four African languages and knew most of the tribal customs.
tribal chiefs
▪ Native American tribal chiefs
tribal loyalty (=loyalty to your group, team etc, which is felt by a large number of people - often used disapprovingly)
▪ Football fans tend to have a strange kind of tribal loyalty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ There was religious dissension in the holy city of Qom and disaffection in many of the tribal areas.
▪ If any move is made by the army in the tribal areas, the result could be an alarm call to Kabul.
▪ The tribal areas retain their status - which means that to this day there is no law and no democracy.
art
▪ The first tribal art sale will be held in May.
▪ Cézanne and tribal art are not yet, it is true, interpreted in a Cubist way.
▪ As opposed to Western art, tribal art is more conceptual, much less conditioned by visual appearances.
▪ William Fagg, ethnologist and historian of tribal art, died London, 10 July aged seventy-eight.
▪ This was the real link between Cubism and tribal art.
▪ For, like tribal art, the Cubism of Picasso and Braque was to be essentially conceptual.
▪ What I say is roughly this: primitive art as we call it, tribal art, is usually very good.
chief
▪ He curbed the tribal chiefs and imposed a secular legal code.
▪ But much of it also went into the unbridled and anachronistic opulence of the royal family and the main tribal chiefs.
▪ It was largely due to him that I managed to negotiate successfully with government officials and tribal chiefs during the months that followed.
council
▪ He may be given a seat on the tribal council, a position of power and prestige.
▪ Regina herself went to the tribal council meeting Friday and demanded that the council do something about the matter.
▪ The Kickapoo tribal council will consider whether to take that step in early April, Diamond said.
▪ But repeated over and over in tribal councils, it soon took on the power of dogma.
customs
▪ Manteo shed light on its people's habits, tribal customs and battle strategies.
government
▪ That is true only in the vaguest terms and only when the whole context of how tribal government evolved is properly understood.
▪ He has been Navajo president for one year, and his efforts to decentralize tribal government so far have fallen flat.
group
▪ There were no roads of any sort, and rapid pursuit of tribal groups was out of the question.
leader
▪ Bersin was applauded by tribal leaders and criticized by his peers for the standstill agreement.
▪ The tribal leaders are the same as those who helped in the census.
▪ For years, tribal leaders suspected the funds were being mismanaged by Uncle Sam.
member
▪ Carl says some fake letters even bear the names of Apache tribal members.
▪ But we need to distinguish between two types of tribal members.
▪ Makil apologized to tribal members six months after the incident but never faced charges.
▪ A circle of tribal members almost immediately formed around him when we walked in.
official
▪ Several top-level tribal officials said it was the first time that a tribal president had been ordered to appear before council members.
▪ But tribal officials say Hawley Lake remains a jewel of the mountains.
▪ Meanwhile, elected tribal officials were just shaking their heads.
people
▪ They were a primitive and tribal people, and do not seem to have been such fierce opponents as the Saxons.
▪ While some tribal people moved into Freetown, they, too, had limited social contact with the Creoles.
▪ In response the tribal people formed a solidarity association with an armed wing, Shanti Bahini.
▪ The worldwide picture for tribal people remains grim.
▪ The story of the Hebrews is of a nomadic tribal people who settled the Holy Land - a depopulated fertile agricultural area.
▪ Bananas and maize have been modified by tribal people for so long that these plants now rely on human intervention to propagate.
▪ Donor countries must be convinced that the tribal people are being adequately catered for.
▪ But, as Bimal pointed out, none of this will benefit the tribal people.
peoples
▪ Sophie Grig works for Survival, a worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples.
▪ Rio hosted simultaneously a Global Forum of some 2,000 non-governmental organizations, together with representatives from some of the world's tribal peoples.
▪ The rainforests and the tribal peoples who live there have never needed your help so urgently.
▪ The meeting passed particular resolutions condemning the uncontrolled logging in Sarawak and the continuing harassment of tribal peoples in the state.
▪ And the stakes are high - tribal peoples are intimidated, beaten and sometimes killed for opposing modern-day land grabs.
society
▪ Many Aborigines become disorientated as tribal societies crumble and black independence erodes further - they have become a marginalized minority.
▪ The Hmong were a tough, unsophisticated tribal society whose own backyard grievances made them perfect recruits for this brutal clandestine war.
▪ At this stage they hardly mention tribal society.
▪ In village and tribal societies of the past, identity was established by birth.
▪ In tribal societies lineages commonly subordinate their material to their symbolic interests.
warfare
▪ The tribal warfare between groups of chimps is both a cause and a consequence of the male tendency to build alliances.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ tribal councils
▪ tribal warfare
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But much of it also went into the unbridled and anachronistic opulence of the royal family and the main tribal chiefs.
▪ But repeated over and over in tribal councils, it soon took on the power of dogma.
▪ It was the largest movement of peoples since the tribal wanderings of the first millennium.
▪ Many Aborigines become disorientated as tribal societies crumble and black independence erodes further - they have become a marginalized minority.
▪ The provinces are based upon the ancient tribal homelands whose people were ruled by their own chieftains.
▪ This conclusion is based on studies of human society, both modern and tribal, and on comparisons with apes and birds.
▪ William Fagg, ethnologist and historian of tribal art, died London, 10 July aged seventy-eight.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tribal

Tribal \Trib"al\, a. Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter.
--Bp. Warburton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tribal

1630s, "pertaining to or characteristic of tribes," from tribe + -al (1). Meaning "characterized by a strong sense of loyalty to one's group" is from 1951 (Arendt). As a style of belly-dance from 1999, American English. Related: Tribally.

Wiktionary
tribal

a. 1 Of, or relating to, tribes 2 Based on or organized according to tribes. n. A design or image that has been influenced by indigenous peoples; especially such a tattoo

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WordNet
tribal

adj. relating to or characteristic of a tribe; "tribal customs"

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Wikipedia
Tribal (Imelda May album)

Tribal is the fourth studio album by the Irish rockabilly musician Imelda May, released on 25 April 2014 on Decca Records.

Originally slated for a summer release, Tribal was recorded at Livingston Studios in London with producer Mike Crossey. The album features a more uptempo style of rockabilly in comparison to May's previous releases, with several critics drawing comparisons to the psychobilly punk band the Cramps and artists such as the B-52s. The album was supported by two singles: "It's Good to Be Alive" and "Wild Woman".

Upon its release, Tribal received generally favourable acclaim and placed in several international charts—including Ireland, where it debuted at number 1; the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 3; and New Zealand, where it placed in the top 20.

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Hence it was held that certain Indian allottees under an agreement according to which, in part consideration of their relinquishment of all their claim to tribal property, they were to receive in severalty allotments of lands which were to be nontaxable for a specified period, acquired vested rights of exemption from State taxation which were protected by the Fifth Amendment against abrogation by Congress.

Among the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste, there hung in the dimness Edward Lear watercolours of Italy and Stubbs sporting prints swollen with humidity and spotted as blighted leaves.

And thus it is small wonder that, in these ecologically disastrous times, many moderns are attempting to resurrect the natural wisdom of tribal awareness more attuned with the biosphere.

Even then Brek was forced to live far from Olbia and to accept the constant interference by a Mirayan magistrate in those few tribal duties left to him.

President Clinton signed a Memorandum of Notification authorizing the CIA to let its tribal assets use force to capture Bin Ladin and his associates.

August Memorandum of Notification, the CIA had already been working on new plans for using the Afghan tribals to capture Bin Ladin.

In prehistoric times, the tribal and nomadic people of the Mediterranean basin overcut and overgrazed the land so severely that the scars of the resulting erosion can still be seen.

They were not true charvolants, these raiders, but atabanques, with canopies consisting only of photonic parafoils and death-lamps, none of the vast array of traditional kites used on tribal ships and National vessels.

It specified that new pontifices and augurs must be elected by a tribal Assembly comprising seventeen of the thirty-five tribes chosen by lot.

He was a primitive, and all primitives, civilized or preliterate, were tribal people.

Anishnabeg were a preliterate people who shared tribal wisdom through storytelling, memorable tales that always had a point.

The ancient Anishnabeg were a preliterate people who shared tribal wisdom through storytelling, memorable tales that always had a point.

Redwing of Springtree, Basl and Karpas, soon many believed to become Basl, Karpas and Redwing, had legal matters on her mind light years away from tribal concerns.

States into their tribal subholons, bathed in blood and kinship lineage and tribal warfare on a vicious scale: the retribalization of large portions of the world.

Helen rode between John and Gavin and listened to their conversation about the Santal tribal rebellion in Bengal against British efforts to control them and to tax their land.