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heimo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • band noun A group of musicians who perform together.
  • family noun A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, especially parents and their children.
  • tribe noun A social group made up of related families or clans, often sharing language, culture, and territory.

Senses

heimo is used for these senses in English:

  • band A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist.
  • band (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and nations.
  • family A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
  • family (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
  • tribe A socially cohesive group of people within a society.

band — full definition

  1. noun A group of musicians who perform together.
  2. noun A thin strip of material used to bind, wrap, or hold something together.
  3. noun A range or category within a larger scale, such as income or frequency.
  4. verb To join together for a shared purpose.

family — full definition

  1. noun A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, especially parents and their children.
  2. noun A group of related things classified together, such as a category in biology or a set of related languages.
  3. adjective Suitable for both children and adults.

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