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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.
Alex Shoumatoff

Meaning of "tribespeople" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRIBESPEOPLE

tribespeople  [ˈtraɪbzpiːpəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRIBESPEOPLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tribespeople 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 TRIBESPEOPLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tribespeople in the English dictionary

The definition of tribespeople in the dictionary is members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRIBESPEOPLE


businesspeople
ˈbɪznɪs ˈpiːpəl
carpal
ˈkɑːpəl
craftspeople
ˈkrɑːftsˌpiːpəl
outpeople
ˌaʊtˈpiːpəl
overpeople
ˌəʊvəˈpiːpəl
peepul
ˈpiːpəl
people
ˈpiːpəl
pipul
ˈpiːpəl
pupil
ˈpjuːpəl
purple
ˈpɜːpəl
repeople
riːˈpiːpəl
sheeple
ˈʃiːpəl
steeple
ˈstiːpəl
tepal
ˈtiːpəl
townspeople
ˈtaʊnzˌpiːpəl
tradespeople
ˈtreɪdzˌpiːpəl
tweeple
ˈtwiːpəl
unpeople
ʌnˈpiːpəl
wheeple
ˈhwiːpəl
workpeople
ˈwɜːkˌpiːpəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRIBESPEOPLE

tribalism
tribalist
tribalistic
tribally
tribasic
tribble
tribe
tribeless
tribesman
tribesmen
tribeswoman
tribeswomen
triblet
triboelectric
triboelectricity
tribological
tribologist
tribology
triboluminescence
triboluminescent

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRIBESPEOPLE

beautiful people
boat people
chosen people
Constantinople
country people
depeople
dispeople
flower people
good people
House of the People
lay people
little people
peculiar people
pod people
salespeople
spokespeople
street people
the beautiful people
the good people
the people
travelling people

Synonyms and antonyms of tribespeople in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tribespeople» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRIBESPEOPLE

Find out the translation of tribespeople to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tribespeople from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tribespeople» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

部落
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tribespeople
570 millions of speakers

English

tribespeople
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tribespeople
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القبائل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

племенами
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tribos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উপজাতির
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tribus
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Suku kaum
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stammes
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

部族民
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부족민
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Suku bangsa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bộ lạc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மலைஜாதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जमाती लोक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eloğulları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tribù
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tribespeople
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

племенами
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

membri de trib
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φυλών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stam
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tribespeople
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tribespeople
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tribespeople

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRIBESPEOPLE»

The term «tribespeople» is normally little used and occupies the 125.867 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRIBESPEOPLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tribespeople» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tribespeople» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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QUOTES WITH «TRIBESPEOPLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tribespeople.
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Alex Shoumatoff
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRIBESPEOPLE»

Discover the use of tribespeople in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tribespeople and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Teacher's Guide, Myths and Legends of India's Warli Tribespeople
Developed to support the study of the Warli paintings in the exhibition 'Myths and legends of India's Warli tribespeople' held at the George Ayers Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Cynthia Stroud Watson, Deanne Wilson, Southeast Institute for Education in the Visual Arts, 1995
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Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq: The 'Ulama' of ...
measure of the agents' success can be seen by the willingness of tribespeople to allow the mujtahids as early as the 1820s to impose Islamic punishments, the hudud, instead of the traditional tribal codes of law. Students from tribal areas who ...
Meir Litvak, 2002
3
Social Change in Melanesia: Development and History
The capitalist commercial developments and associated social changes affecting Melanesia are said to be turning its population from tribespeople into peasants. What this change of status implies is that where previously there was an ...
Paul Sillitoe, 2000
4
Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East
Anthropologists,. Historians,. and. Tribespeople. on. Tribe. and. State. Formation. in. the. Middle. East. Richard Tapper In recent decades Western historians and anthropologists have come closer together in common endeavors to reexamine ...
Philip Shukry Khoury, Joseph Kostiner, 1990
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Afghanistan: Mission Impossible?
The tribespeople, predominantly illiterate, poor and conservative, are finding it hard to understand the difference between the Soviet 'occupying forces' and the US 'liberating forces' and just how the Mujahideen, who had earlier been hailed by ...
Peter Bergen, Julian Lindley-French, Hekmat Karzai, Ismail Khan and Andrei Zagorski
6
Honour Is in Contentment: Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah ...
Tribal shaikhs and shaikhly families were mediators and arbitrators when asked, spokesmen between tribespeople and others, defenders and promoters of tribal interests, and some collected zakat for a ruler. Rulers, ruling families, shaikhs ...
William Lancaster, Fidelity Lancaster, 2011
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Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National ...
In chapter 6 I focus on the 1984 parliamentary by-elections in which tribespeople participated as both candidates and voters. These elections provide a rich case through which to examine the the ways that tribal identity is being dialogically ...
Linda L. Layne, 1994
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Toby and Scout's Marvelous Misadventures
She soon found herself too exhausted to escape. She continued to try to escape, although she knew she couldn't, she continued yelling sentences to try and escape, "Let go of me! Please!" The tribespeople also brought Toby with them, “ Onay!
Hyland MACC 2012
9
Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
aGavagai.« The translator observesthat the tribespeople utter this sentence, orassentto it, only when a rabbit is present.It would thusbenatural enough for himto translatethe sentence by ...
G.H.R. Parkinson, 2012
10
I, the Gikuyu, and the White Fury
The tribespeople were promised good conditions for helping the white settlers develop their newly-acquired farms. But within a few years, such areas became known as the White Highlands where no blacks or Asians were allowed to own land ...
Henry Muoria, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRIBESPEOPLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tribespeople is used in the context of the following news items.
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Starting from scratch: Eidak tribespeople return to deserted houses …
According to insiders, Dawar tribespeople have returned home to deserted homes after spending little over a year in Bannu as internally displaced persons ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Side-lined: Former MNA demands equal treatment for Sepah …
Side-lined: Former MNA demands equal treatment for Sepah tribespeople. Says they should be repatriated, compensated for their losses. By Our Correspondent. «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
3
Tribespeople slam BISE Kohat for victimising students
Elders alleged that students of Kurram Agency were victimised by BISE Kohat officials in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations. STOCK IMAGE. «The Express Tribune, Jun 15»
4
Self-sustainability: Interest-free loans announced to help FATA tribes
PESHAWAR: Governor Sardar Mehtab Ahmed announced interest-free loans for tribespeople so they can start their own businesses. A memorandum of ... «The Express Tribune, Jun 15»
5
Ethiopia: army 'massacre' of tribespeople
UK-based advocacy group Survival International says it has received reports that violent conflict between Ethiopian soldiers and Hamar pastoralists left dozens ... «World War 4 Report, Jun 15»
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Reports surface of 'massacre' of Hamar tribespeople in Ethiopia
Survival International has received reports that violent conflict between Ethiopian soldiers and Hamar pastoralists has left dozens dead. The Hamar, like the ... «Survival International, Jun 15»
7
"Sinai is safe": the Bedouin tribespeople fighting a devastating …
"Sinai is safe": the Bedouin tribespeople fighting a devastating tourism decline in the Egyptian peninsula. Tourists, central to the livelihood of tribesmen in the ... «New Statesman, Jun 15»
8
Eco-tourism brings succour to tribespeople
The community-based eco-tourism now being practised at the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve with the active involvement of 234 members of six tribal settlements ... «The Hindu, May 15»
9
Fishing for solutions to combat malnutrition stalking tribespeople
"We decided to tap the potential of aquaculture to address the issue of malnutrition among the tribespeople, especially in the backdrop of rising infant deaths in ... «Times of India, May 15»
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Road to progress a dream for tribespeople
The road to Edaliparakudy, which was 'opened' with much fanfare, last year, remains a dream to the people of Edamalakkudy – the remotest tribal grama ... «The Hindu, Apr 15»

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