Suprafamilial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Suprafamilial is an adjective meaning Of a level of society higher than family.
Meaning
Of a level of society higher than family.
More Meanings
- (taxonomy) Whose taxonomic level is higher than family.
Example Sentences
In the final version of this classification (Cushman, 1948), the number of families (without any suprafamilial groupings) was 50.
The social group of interest when historians speak of "communes" in rural Russia is any suprafamilial one that is linked to the territory of a village or sometimes a parish community.
A suprafamilial name revised from its previously published rank with accompanying change of termination (which may or may not be intended to signalize the change of rank) is recorded as nom. transl et correct.
1988, D. Blair Gibson, M.N. Geselowitz, Tribe and Polity in Late Prehistoric Europe, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 47, All pastoral and agro-pastoral societies have some form of suprafamilial and often supralocal political structure, and all are marked by some form of social inequality.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include postfamilial, first, paterfamilial, familied, befamilied, half.
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