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Clan member
Answer for the clue "Clan member ", 9 letters:
tribesman
Alternative clues for the word tribesman
Word definitions for tribesman in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1798, from genitive of tribe (n.) + man (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A male member of a tribe. 2 An abstract tribesperson; any tribesman or tribeswoman.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a result, we will become like preliterate tribesmen of old, except on a much larger scale. ▪ It is tribesmen who tell themselves that tribes are natural groups based on primary bonds of kinship and descent. ▪ Lizards remain ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who lives in a tribe
Usage examples of tribesman.
Seeklat intended to rouse the remaining Ashanti tribesmen, to have them ready when Bronden returned.
Vaedorie, small and intensely dark, looked like one of the Nimosei wives those northern tribesmen had taken to acquire the property that, in the Old Empire, had passed by matrilineal succession.
In the matter of the supply of arms the Government would find it cheaper to enter the market as a purchaser, and have agents to outbid the tribesmen, rather than to employ soldiers.
Where most of the tribesmen chose instinctively the path to which honor or loyalty or friendship bade them, Pandan would hesitate and temporize, to see which course held the least peril or the most personal advantage for himself.
The Siouan domiciles were thus adapted with remarkable closeness to the daily habits and environment of the tribesmen, while at the same time they reflected the complex social organization growing out of their prescriptorial status and militant disposition.
In addition, Guret had shot a small pronghorn and his two fellow tribesmen had knocked over some long-legged, gaunt-bodied birds they flushed out of the grass in their going.
Raven went to one of these Refu camps and passed himself off as a Siberian tribesman.
Castle when one of the men caught up with me and told me that Baber Ali had ridden off in the direction of his sangar and left you with his four tribesmen.
The vile and horrid mutilations which the tribesmen inflict on all bodies that fall into their hands, and the insults to which they expose them, add, to unphilosophic minds, another terror to death.
The next shot, by dividing the error, would go home, and the dust of the spliters and bullets would show on the peak, from which the tribesmen were firing, and it would become silent and deserted--the scene of an unregarded tragedy.
Rome of a deputation of Allobroges, Gallic tribesmen from far up the Rhodanus in Further Gaul, no one could have predicted.
He woke in the late evening, looking as well as Sebastian had ever seen him, to greet the returning Mohammed and the dozen tall Angoni tribesmen who accompanied him.
Seeklat intended to rouse the remaining Ashanti tribesmen, to have them ready when Bronden returned.
He also proved, at the Battle of Miani, where he aided the British against the rebellious Baluchi tribesmen, that he could fight like ten tigers.
Individual tribesmen ran up, shouting insults, to within fifty yards of the Buffs and discharged their rifles.