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PHRATRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does phratry mean?
• PHRATRY (noun)
The noun PHRATRY has 1 sense:
1. people descended from a common ancestor
Familiarity information: PHRATRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
People descended from a common ancestor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept
Context example:
his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower
Hypernyms ("phratry" is a kind of...):
ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock (the descendants of one individual)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phratry"):
people (members of a family line)
homefolk (the people of your home locality (especially your own family))
house (aristocratic family line)
dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)
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