Words Like GENS
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7 Alternative Words Similar to gens
9 definitions of gens
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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.
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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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family based on male descent
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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.
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Anthropology An exogamous patrilineal clan.
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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.
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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.
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a tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line