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Gens

Gens Meaning & Definition
Gens Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gens?

[n] family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Gens: name

Related Terms | Find terms related to Gens: animal kingdom | ashram | blood | body | breed | brood | caste | clan | class | colony | commonwealth | commune | community | deme | economic class | endogamous group | extended family | family | folk | house | kind | kinship group | line | lineage | matriclan | moiety | nation | nuclear family | order | patriclan | people | phratria | phratry | phyle | plant kingdom | race | sept | settlement | social class | society | species | stem | stirps | stock | strain | subcaste | totem | tribe

See Also | family | family line | folk | kinfolk | kinsfolk | phratry | sept

Gens In Webster's Dictionary

\Gens\ (j[e^]nz), n.; pl. {Gentes} (j[e^]n"t[=e]z). [L. See {Gentle}, a.] (Rom. Hist.) 1. A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe. 2. (Ethnol.) A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.

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