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Meaning of "phratries" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PHRATRIES

phratries  [ˈfreɪtrɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHRATRIES

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Phratries is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PHRATRIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Phratry

In ancient Greece, a phratry (phratria, Greek: φ(ρ)ατρία, "brotherhood", "kinfolk", derived from φρατήρ meaning "brother") was a social division of the Greek tribe (phyle). The nature of these phratries is, in the words of one historian, "the darkest problem among the social institutions." Little is known about the role they played in Greek social life, but they existed from the Greek Dark Ages until the 2nd century BC; Homer refers to them several times, in passages that appear to describe the social environment of his times. In Athens, enrollment in a phratry seems to have been the basic requirement for citizenship in the state before the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC. From their peak of prominence in the Dark Ages, when they appear to have been a substantial force in Greek social life, phratries gradually declined in significance throughout the classical period as other groups (such as political parties) gained influence at their cost.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHRATRIES


casuistries
ˈkæzjʊɪstrɪz
deviltries
ˈdevɪltrɪz
dissymmetries
dɪˈsɪmɪtrɪz
errantries
ˈerəntrɪz
gantries
ˈɡæntrɪz
gauntries
ˈɡɔːntrɪz
pageantries
ˈpædʒəntrɪz
pedantries
ˈpedəntrɪz
rabbitries
ˈræbɪtrɪz
registries
ˈredʒstrɪz
sentries
ˈsentrɪz
sophistries
ˈsɒfɪstrɪz
tapestries
ˈtæpɪstrɪz
toiletries
ˈtɔɪlətrɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHRATRIES

phrasemaker
phrasemaking
phraseman
phrasemonger
phraseogram
phraseograph
phraseographic
phraseography
phraseologic
phraseological
phraseologically
phraseologies
phraseologist
phraseology
phraser
phrasing
phrasy
phratral
phratric
phratry

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHRATRIES

accessories
ancestries
bordering countries
Castries
chemistries
countries
engineering industries
entries
industries
Low Countries
ministries
Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries
pantries
pastries
pleasantries
re-entries
retries
service industries
state-trading countries
symmetries
tries

Synonyms and antonyms of phratries in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «phratries» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHRATRIES

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The translations of phratries from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «phratries» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

胞族
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fratrías
570 millions of speakers

English

phratries
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

phratries
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

phratries
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фратрии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fratrias
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

phratries
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

phratries
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Phratries
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

phratries
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

phratries
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

phratries
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Phratries
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phratries
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

phratries
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शब्दसंग्रह
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Çünkü aşiretler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fratrie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fratrii
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фратрії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

phratries
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φρατρίες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

phratries
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

phratries
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

phratries
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of phratries

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHRATRIES»

The term «phratries» is used very little and occupies the 183.987 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHRATRIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about phratries

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHRATRIES»

Discover the use of phratries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to phratries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Phratries of Attica
Presents the innovative view that the classical Greek "phratry" system reflected democratic government rather than aristocratic.
S. D. Lambert, 1998
2
Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental ...
The existence of the two phratries reduces his choice to 6 –– 12 or 1–2, for then a man of totem a can only marry a woman of totems 1 to 6. With the introduction of the four subphratries his choice is still further reduced to 3 –– 12 or 1 – 4 , for in ...
Sigmund Freud, 2001
3
Durkheim's Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of ...
is divided into two phratries. The things belonging to each phratry are then distributed among the clans into which the phratry is divided. Such primitive classifications, Durkheim concluded, constitute the origin of our modern idea of classifying ...
Warren Schmaus, 1994
4
Ancient Greek Religion
The 139 demes and 10 new tribes that Cleisthenes established in Athens in 508/ 7 b.c.e. as foundations of the new democracy were superimposed on an earlier social organization based on the phratries (“brotherhoods”) and four tribes.
Jon D. Mikalson, 2011
5
Religion and Hopi Life
Hopi Phratries An important Hopi phenomenon that interrelates kinship, agriculture, and religion is the phratry. Hopi phratries have received a great deal of attention from various scholars of Hopi life precisely because they embody a number ...
John D. Loftin, 2003
6
Anthropology: The Human Challenge
Figure 21.3 This diagram shows how lineages, clans, phratries, and moieties form an organizational hierarchy. Each moiety is subdivided into phratries, each phratry into clans, and each clan into lineages. at least two clans that supposedly  ...
William Haviland, Harald Prins, Dana Walrath, 2010
7
The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History
For an understanding of the social structure of early Athenian society, it is obviously of great importance to know that by 621 at the latest, membership in the phratries was not restricted to Eupatrid gene. Phratries may have existed among the ...
John V. A. Fine, John Van Antwerp Fine, 1983
8
Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
Each subtribe counts (speaking of them in the ethnographic present) a number of local, patrilineal subclans, belonging to one of the various intercommunal clans that constitute part of either of four patrilineal, exogamous phratries into which ...
Gilbert H. Herdt, 1993
9
Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia
At least two observers had detected the existence of Australian organisations of the same nature as the American phratries, so far as our scanty information from West Australia goes, even before the publication of Archaeologia Americana.
Northcote Whitridge Thomas, 2010
10
Houses in the Rain Forest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among ...
Not all Lese settlements are arranged in the same pattern, but an attempt is usually made to place clans next to other clans of the same phratry, with a greater distance maintained between phratries than between the clans of the same phratry.
Roy Richard Grinker, 1994

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHRATRIES»

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Totem and taboo: The Zeliangrong of North East - Part 1 -
... of the clansmen to each other and to men of other clans or subdivision of the tribe into minor units called clans, genets, sibs, or phratries. «E-Pao.net, Dec 14»
2
The class struggle in the Roman Republic, part two
“Like the Greeks of the heroic age, the Romans in the age of the so-called kings lived in a military democracy founded on gentes, phratries, and ... «In Defense of Marxism, Sep 09»

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