Definitions for gens

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Spelling: [jenz]

IPA: /dʒɛnz/

Gens is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in gens (egns).

Definitions for gens

noun

1. a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
2. Anthropology. a group tracing common descent in the male line; clan.

Origin of gens

First recorded in 1840-50, gens is from the Latin word gēns race, people. See genus, gender¹, gender

Examples for gens

Where, Sarka wondered, were the people of the gens of Dalis?

And no one lives there, since Dalis' gens flew out to do battle!

"Take her away; she's deranged," said O'Leary to the gens d'armes.

But the common people of his gens did not posses that power.

He had been wondering and scheming how to compel the Spokesmen of the gens to obey his will.

There was no way of knowing how close it was to the home of these rebels of Dalis' gens.

Then what of the Spokesmen of the gens, who will be out of contact with me?

Plunge in, and obey my commands, O people of the gens of Dalis!

He was subjecting the people of his gens to the white flames.

He sped forth from the laboratory, to reorganize his beaten gens.