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单词 tribesman
释义

tribesmann.

Brit. /ˈtrʌɪbzmən/, U.S. /ˈtraɪbzmən/
Etymology: < tribe's, genitive of tribe n. + man n.1 (Compare clansman.)
1. A man belonging to a tribe; a member of a tribe. Chiefly in plural.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > tribe > [noun] > member of tribe
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1883 Standard No. 18465. 5/2 To make a meal off the grasshopper with the tribesmen of the Sierra Nevada.
1893 E. R. Sutherland in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 635 An animal dying of itself may not be eaten by a tribesman, but might be sold to a stranger.
1905 Times 13 Sept. 3/3 A patrol..has been fired on by Tebetekentzy tribesmen.
2. With possessive, a man of one's own tribe, a fellow-tribesman.
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1798 R. Southey Rose 28 For her Her tribes-men sigh'd in vain.
1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 117 Why spare our stones, my fellow tribesmen?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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