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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural phratries) Etymology: Greek phratria, from phrat?r member of the same clan, member of a phratry — more at brother Date: 1833 1. a kinship group forming a subdivision of a Greek phyle 2. a tribal subdivision; specifically an exogamous group typically comprising several totemic clans

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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