federation of tribes

1. 1.

   a federation (as of American Indians)

   Synonymstribe

   Broadernation

   United States

Questions about federation of tribes

What does federation of tribes mean?

federation of tribes means "a federation (as of American Indians)".

What is another word for federation of tribes?

Close synonyms include tribe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is federation of tribes a common word?

federation of tribes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.