Gens

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  • noun. A patrilineal clan of ancient Rome composed of several families of the same name claiming a common ancestor and belonging to a common religious cult.
  • noun. An exogamous patrilineal clan.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In ancient Rome, a clan or house embracing several families claiming descent from a common ancestor, united by a common name and by certain religious rites and legal privileges and obligations, but not necessarily by consanguinity: as, the Fabian gens, all bearing the name Fabius; the Julian gens, all named Julius; the Cornelian gens, etc.
  • noun. In historical and ethnological use, a tribe or clan; any community of persons in a primitive state of society constituting a distinct or independent branch of a general aggregate or race.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A legally defined unit of Roman society closest in meaning to and translated by English clan, but not identical to it. The gens was a collection of families whose members were related by birth, marriage or adoption. All the families were considered to have descended from a common clan ancestor although in cases where the time from the ancestor to the contemporary time was great the kinship was more remote than is meant by the English term "related." In such cases the legal definition still prevailed.
  • noun. a tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line
  • abbreviation. generations
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. family based on male descent
    • Word Usage
    "Page 103. 3. vieilles gens: attributive adjectives are generally _feminine_ when preceding and _masculine_ when following _gens_."
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    gen  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    family  family line  folk  kinfolk  kinsfolk  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Benz  Friends  Henze  bens  cheyennes  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    animal kingdom  ashram  blood  body  breed  
    variant
    gentes  
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