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.
check bellow for the other definitions of Ethnic and Tribe
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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"
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Ethnic as an adjective:
Belonging to a foreign culture.
Examples:
"I like to eat ethnic food"
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Ethnic as an adjective:
Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
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Ethnic as an adjective (historical):
Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.
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Ethnic as a noun:
An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
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Ethnic as a noun:
An ethnic minority.
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Ethnic as a noun (archaic):
A heathen, a pagan.
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Ethnic as a noun:
(in classical scholarship) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city
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Tribe as a noun:
A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
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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.
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Tribe as a noun:
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Tribe as a noun (taxonomy):
A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
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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"
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Tribe as a verb (transitive):
To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.