Sort and Tribe

Sort

Sort noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

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Tribe and sort are semantically related in people topic. In some cases you can use "Tribe" instead a noun "Sort".

Nearby Words: sorted, sorting, sorter

Tribe noun - A group of persons who come from the same ancestor.

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Sort and tribe are semantically related in family topic. Sometimes you can use "Sort" instead a noun "Tribe".

Nearby Words: tribal, tribesman, tribalism

human	human sort	human tribe
old	old sort	old tribe
particular	particular sort	particular tribe
specific	specific sort	specific tribe
Other adjectives: complete, certain, friendly, powerful, actual, bad, ancient, new, angry, strange, different, literal.

The mutants who live in the fringes in The Chrysalids seem to adopt each other as a sort of 'tribe'/family.

Source: Secret Project Refugee Family
Between Eska being an abusive psycho and Unalaq shaping up to be some sort of Well-Intentioned Extremist regarding the Water Tribe's spiritual issues, Desna's developing habit of asking questions is putting him on the road to this trope within his family.

Source: Only Sane Man / Western Animation
Magical Native American: Mani has an air of mysticism about him -according to Fronsac he was "a sort of priest" to his tribe, presumably a shaman and/or medicine man- and seems to have some sort of psychic connection with a wolf.

Source: Film / Brotherhood of the Wolf

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