Definition of "tribespeople" [tribespeople]

• The people of one's own tribe. (noun-plural)
• An aboriginal people living in tribes: the tribespeople of the Kalahari Desert. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The piece told you a bit about the music but a lot more about how many 'tribespeople', 'local tribes', 'other tribes' and how much 'tribal music' there was."
• "If such were the case, it was a state of mind he could not tolerate in any of his tribespeople."
• "Wherefore it be plain that some of our own tribespeople have laid unlawful hand upon the blankets."