PHYLE (phylae)

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Irregular inflected form: phylae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does phyle mean? 

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

1. a tribe of ancient Athenians

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tribe of ancient Athenians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

folk; tribe (a social division of (usually preliterate) people)