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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 ancestorplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PHRATRY (noun)


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)

gens; name (family based on male descent)


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