1. gens - Noun
2. gens - Adjective
3. Gens - Proper noun
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.
A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.
Source: Webster's dictionaryhe had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name Source: Internet
After his demands were refused, he attempted to incite the gens de couleur to revolt. Source: Internet
A gens, which may be translated as "race", "family", or "clan", constituted an extended Roman family, all of whom shared the same nomen, and claimed descent from a common ancestor. Source: Internet
By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied himself to the more prestigious patrician gens Vespasia, ensuring the elevation of his sons Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Vespasian to the senatorial rank. Source: Internet
A plebeian branch of the gens, the Claudii Marcelli, retained the supposedly patrician spelling, while there is some inscriptional evidence that the -o- form may also have been used on occasion by close male relatives of the "patrician tribune" Clodius. Source: Internet
Gitlin, The Bourgeois Frontier, p. 166 In 1860, the city had 13,000 free people of color (gens de couleur libres), the class of free, mostly mixed-race people that developed during French and Spanish rule. Source: Internet