Meaning of GENS
| Pronunciation: | | jenz
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| | Definition: | | [n] family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name" |
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| | Synonyms: | | name |
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| | See Also: | | family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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