Word
phratry, n.
(phratries)
people descended from a common ancestor
<noun.group>
freq. cnt.: 7
freq. cnt.: 5
freq. cnt.: 1
freq. cnt.: 1
family
family line
folk
kinfolk
kinsfolk
phratry
sept
sample sentences
"his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
semantic pointers
hypernym
ancestry, lineage, line, pedigree, blood, stock, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, origin, parentage, stemma
hyponym
people
homefolk
house
dynasty
name, gens