tribal elder
Community's senior voice
A tribal elder is a senior member of a tribe or indigenous community who holds authority based on age, experience, and wisdom.
Tribal elders often serve as keepers of tradition, mediators of disputes, and advisors on community matters.
The term extends to any respected senior figure in a close-knit group: The tribal elders of the neighborhood gathered at the barbershop.
- chiefTop-ranking leader
- wisdomGood judgment from experience
- wise counselPrudent advisory input
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
- ancestorPredecessor in lineage
shaman · village · village gathering · ceremony · coming of age · tradition · firelight · peace pipe · storyteller · headdress · sacred · sacred fire · spirit world · clan · patriarch · ritual · medicine · respected
- community leadersheadwoman, civic leader, community organizer, headman, council member
- social ranksking, queen, emperor, empress, noble
- wise elderssage, patriarch, matriarch, mentor, guru
- AfghanistanKabul, Kandahar, Pashtun, Tajik, Helmand
- Desert NomadsBedouin, Tuareg, Berber, Fulani, Moor
- family hierarchypatriarch, matriarch, head of household, parent, father
tribal elderyouth
State of being immature
young person · child · adolescent · infant · teenager
tribal elderoutcast
Shunned, rejected person
commoner · subordinate · follower · junior member · pariah
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