TRIBAL SOCIETY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tribal society mean? 

• TRIBAL SOCIETY (noun)
  The noun TRIBAL SOCIETY has 1 sense:

1. a society with the social organization of a tribe

  Familiarity information: TRIBAL SOCIETY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRIBAL SOCIETY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A society with the social organization of a tribe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("tribal society" is a kind of...):

society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tribal society"):

hunting and gathering society; hunting and gathering tribe (group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables; usually nomadic)