The difference between Ethnic and Tribe

When used as nouns, ethnic means an ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community, whereas tribe means a socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.


Ethnic is also adjective with the meaning: of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.

Tribe is also verb with the meaning: to distribute into tribes or classes.

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  1. Ethnic as an adjective:

    Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.

    Examples:

    "There are many ethnic Indonesians in the Netherlands"

  2. Ethnic as an adjective:

    Belonging to a foreign culture.

    Examples:

    "I like to eat ethnic food"

  3. Ethnic as an adjective:

    Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.

  4. Ethnic as an adjective (historical):

    Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.

  1. Ethnic as a noun:

    An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.

  2. Ethnic as a noun:

    An ethnic minority.

  3. Ethnic as a noun (archaic):

    A heathen, a pagan.

  4. Ethnic as a noun:

    (in classical scholarship) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city

  1. Tribe as a noun:

    A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.

  2. Tribe as a noun (anthropology):

    A society larger than a band but smaller than a state. A group of apes who live and work together.

  3. Tribe as a noun:

  4. Tribe as a noun (taxonomy):

    A hierarchal rank between family and genus.

  5. Tribe as a noun (stock breeding):

    A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

    Examples:

    "the Duchess tribe of shorthorns"

  1. Tribe as a verb (transitive):

    To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.

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