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pretribal en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + tribal.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Before the development of tribes.
    • His social habits were still pretribal. The fairly large dwellings used by the Neanderthal men indicate that their hunting groups and settlements included large numbers of participants and their families. 1949, Peter I. Lyashchenko, History of the National Economy of Russia to the 1917 Revolution, page 26: