Gentes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GENTES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• GENS, in ancient Rome a clan including several families descending from a common ancestor
• a group of families in ancient Rome who shared a name and claimed a common origin.
• a group of people who are related through their male ancestors.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of clan
• pl. of gens

Words related to GENTES

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How to use GENTES in a sentence

• Each one of the Blackfoot tribes is subdivided into gentes, a gens being a body of consanguineal kindred in the male line.
• It will also be noticed that each tribe has a few gentes common to one or both of the other tribes.
• When all the gentes of the tribe were present, each had its special position in the circle, and always occupied it.
• It is customary to give a marriage feast, in which the gentes of both parties take part.
• But, regarded as a whole, in their physique the Seminole warriors, especially the men of the Tiger and Otter gentes, are admirable.
• The division into clusters, however, indicates an aggregation of related gentes or subgentes banded together for protection.
• These seven gentes still exist, or did exist as late as 1880.
• The gentes exist, but their names have not been recorded.
• The numbers prefixed to the names of these gentes denote their respective places in the camping circle of the Sisseton and Wahpeton, as shown in figure 30.
• THE TITONWAN OR TETON TRIBAL DIVISIONS The Teton are divided into seven tribes, which were formerly gentes.
• The Sitcanxu are divided socially into gentes, of which the number has increased in recent years.
• THE OGLALA The first list of Oglala gentes was obtained in 1879 from Reverend John Robinson and confirmed in 1880 by a member of the tribe.
• The members of the four gentes of soldiers or policemen meet in council and decide on the time for departure.
• Meantime men of different gentes bring cedar, stones, etc, and perform their respective ceremonies.
• At the same time the women of the other gentes are blessed in like manner by the headmen of their respective gentes.
• THE NI-U’-T’A-TCI OR MISSOURI This tribe, which for many years has been consolidated with the Oto, has at least three gentes.
• Valliere was unable to say on which side of the tribal circle each gens camped, but he gave the personal names of some members of most of the gentes.
• Probably other incoming gentes, of whom no story has been preserved, had also the ill fate to build there, for the Walpi people afterward slew all its inhabitants.
• A kiva may belong either to a society, a group of gentes, or an individual.
• A similar custom of inheritance prevails where the kiva belongs to a group of gentes, only in that case the kiva chief is usually chief of the gentile group.
• The membership is composed of men from all the Hano gentes, but not all of any one gens.
• But he found it very difficult to induce any of them to admit that the gentes had subdivisions, which were probably the original gentes.
• It is probable that they are the property of a secret order, as they, too, show how some of the gentes descended as birds from the upper world.
• The names of the Winnebago gentes and of some members of the tribe have been recorded by the author, who has also learned parts of their traditions.
• The ancestors of these gentes were spoken of as birds which descended from an upper world.
• The Jicarillas seem to have no system of clans or gentes.
• While husband and wife belonged to different gentes, the predominating number in each household would be of the same gens, namely, that of their mothers.

Similar words containing GENTE without suffix s

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