GENS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: gentes

Meaning:

Family based on male descent

Example:

he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name

Synonyms:

gens; name

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb gen