tribalist

noun

Etymology

From tribal + -ist.

  1. learned borrowing from Stammesgeschichte
  2. borrowed from tribālis
  3. suffixed as tribalist — “tribal + ist

Definitions

  1. A person who identifies with, or has loyalty to, a tribe or similar group.

    • ‘Yes but your grandfather was a tribalist. That was the only reason he refused to let me and your father marry. Tribalism is what is holding Nigeria back. You must never judge someone based on their tribe.’

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tribalist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA