Tag: Phratry

• Noun: Phratry
  
  1. a kinship group forming a subdivision of a Greek phyle
  2. a tribal subdivision specifically : an exogamous group typically comprising several totemic clans
• Synonyms:
  1.  sept
  2. lineage
  3. kinfolk
  4. pedigree
  5. blood line
• Usage:
  1. “You people call yourselves a ‘family’ but the grouping is a phratry.“
• Encountered:
  1. While reading Robert A. Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy.

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