GEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gen mean? 

• GEN (noun)
  The noun GEN has 1 sense:

1. informal term for information

  Familiarity information: GEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal term for information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

give me the gen on your new line of computers

Hypernyms ("gen" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Why, in a place like this, where nobody puts in but gen'lemen of fortune, Silver would fly the Jolly Roger, you don't make no doubt of that.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I never wish to meet a better gen'l'man for turning to with a will.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Rum wouldn't bring me there, where you're going—not rum wouldn't, till I see your born gen'leman and gets it on his word of honour.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“For some time past,” Ham faltered, “there's been a servant about here, at odd times. There's been a gen'lm'n too. Both of 'em belonged to one another.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then, he continued, then you'll up, and you'll say this: Gunn is a good man (you'll say), and he puts a precious sight more confidence—a precious sight, mind that—in a gen'leman born than in these gen'leman of fortune, having been one hisself.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Here's a gen'lm'n behind me, I'll pound it,” said William, “as has bred 'em by wholesale.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You're right, young gen'l'm'n! Mas'r Davy bor', gen'l'm'n's right. A thorough-built boatman! Hor, hor! That's what he is, too!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I found out an English gen'leman as was in authority,” said Mr. Peggotty, “and told him I was a-going to seek my niece. He got me them papers as I wanted fur to carry me through—I doen't rightly know how they're called—and he would have give me money, but that I was thankful to have no need on. I thank him kind, for all he done, I'm sure! “I've wrote afore you,” he says to me, “and I shall speak to many as will come that way, and many will know you, fur distant from here, when you're a-travelling alone.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)