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Phratry

noun
(pl. phratries)
1.
People descended from a common ancestor.  Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept.





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"Phratry" Quotes from Famous Books



... is not to be found among the Ionians, whether colonists or citizens of Athens; an ancestral Apollo there is, who is the father of Ion, and a family Zeus, and a Zeus guardian of the phratry, and an Athene guardian of the phratry. But the name of ancestral Zeus ...
— Euthydemus • Plato


Words linked to "Phratry" :   name, family, stemma, kinsfolk, ancestry, dynasty, stock, origin, lineage, people, parentage, line of descent, blood line, house, descent, homefolk, gens, bloodline, line, blood, pedigree


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