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PHRATRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People descended from a common ancestor
Example:
his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower
Synonyms:
family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("phratry" is a kind of...):
ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock (the descendants of one individual)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phratry"):
people (members of a family line)
homefolk (the people of your home locality (especially your own family))
house (aristocratic family line)
dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)
