phratry
Kelime Anlamı :

1. aşiret.
2. sosyol.
3. boy.
4. uruk.
Tanımlar :
1. A kinship group constituting an intermediate division in the primitive structure of the hellenic tribe or phyle, consisting of several patrilinear clans, and surviving in classical times as a territorial subdivision in the political and military organization of the athenian state.
2. anthropology an exogamous subdivision of the tribe, constituting two or more related clans.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in athens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. A brotherhood or clan; specifically, in the states of ancient greece, a politico-religious group of citizens, which appears to have been originally based on kinship and to have been a subdivision of the phyle or tribe.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. people descended from a common ancestor
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