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GENS (gentes)
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Irregular inflected form: gentes
Dictionary entry overview: What does gens mean?
• GENS (noun)
The noun GENS has 1 sense:
1. family based on male descent
Familiarity information: GENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family based on male descent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
gens; name
Context example:
he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name
Hypernyms ("gens" is a kind of...):
family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)
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