TRIBESMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tribesman mean? 

• TRIBESMAN (noun)
  The noun TRIBESMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who lives in a tribe

  Familiarity information: TRIBESMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRIBESMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who lives in a tribe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tribesman" is a kind of...):

fellow member; member (one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization))

Holonyms ("tribesman" is a member of...):

clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe (group of people related by blood or marriage)

 Context examples 

Hunters there are who fail to return to the camp, and hunters there have been whom their tribesmen found with throats slashed cruelly open and with wolf prints about them in the snow greater than the prints of any wolf.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)