Usually means: Family units in ancient Rome.
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  1. -gens, gens: Merriam-Webster
  2. gens: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gens: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gens: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gens: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gen's, Gens, gen's, gens: Wordnik
  7. Gens, gens: Wiktionary
  8. gens: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gens: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gens: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Gens, gens: Dictionary.com
  12. gens: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Gens (anthropology), Gens (band), Gens (behaviour), Gens (disambiguation), Gens: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Gens: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. gens: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. gens: Rhymezone
  17. Gens, gens (m), gens (mpl): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gens: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gens: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. gens: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gens: Global Glossary

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  3. gens: Legal dictionary

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  1. gens: Encyclopedia

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  1. GENS: Acronym Finder

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  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

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  1. gens: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gens)

noun:  (Ancient Rome, historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium.
noun:  (anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.
noun:  (zoology) A host-specific lineage of a brood parasite species.^([W])
noun:  A surname from German.

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