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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. people descended from a common ancestor;
- Example: "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
[syn: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Phratry \Phra"try\, n.; pl. Phratries. [Gr. ?, ?.] (Gr.
   Antiq.)
   A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

phratry
    n 1: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has
         lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family,
         family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept,
         phratry]