Gens is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GENS in dictionary:

VERB:
• find out about
• provide someone with information
NOUN:
• in ancient Rome a clan including several families descending from a common ancestor
• information
• (in ancient Rome) a group of aristocratic families
• family based on male descent
ADJECTIVE:
• 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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to provide or obtain information
• a type of clan

Words related to GENS

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Words that contain GENS

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How to use GENS in a sentence

• He returned himself as elected, together with nine others, men of no name, while two of the great Quinctian gens, who offered themselves, were rejected.
• Formerly each gens was governed by a chief, who was entitled to his office by virtue of his bravery and generosity.
• When the camp moved, the Blood gens moved first and was followed by the White Breast gens, and so on around the circle to number 24.
• When a woman is installed as councillor a feast is prepared by the gens to which she belongs, and to this feast all the members of the tribe are invited.
• When matters before the council are considered of great importance, a grand council of the gens may be called.
• A woman taken to wife from without the tribe must first be adopted into some family of a gens other than that to which the man belongs.
• That a woman may take for a husband a man without the tribe he must also be adopted into the family of some gens other than that of the woman.
• The heads of households are responsible for the cultivation of the tract, and should this duty be neglected the council of the gens calls the responsible parties to account.
• When the prosecutor and prosecuted belong to the same gens, the trial is before the council of the gens, and from it there is no appeal.
• If the gens of the offender fail to settle the matter with the gens of the aggrieved party, it is the duty of his nearest relative to avenge the wrong.
• Woman of Snake gens Di-je-rons One who Ripples the Water.
• McDowell, then at Fredericksburg with 40,000 men, and Gens.
• I have secured, I think, a correct census of the Florida Seminole by name, sex, age, gens, and place of living.
• So far as duogamy prevails now among the Florida Indians, I observed that both the wives, in every case, were members of one gens.
• This second order was given to me by one of the Bird gens and by one who calls himself distinctively a “Tallahassee” Indian.
• A small section of a village, generally a gens or a subgens, moves away from the parent village, perhaps only a few miles.
• Among the Omaha there is no military class, yet there is a war element which is regulated by the Elk gens.
• This last gens consists of Thunder and Reptile people.
• Then four names are given by the headman of the gens to the father, who selects one of them as the name for the child.
• He invites all the women of his gens who wish to be blessed to come forward, and he treats them as he did the infant.
• Some of the Winnebago say that there is an Omaha gens among the Winnebago of Wisconsin, but James Alexander knew nothing about it.
• This lodge corresponds in some degree to the two sacred lodges of the Hanga gens of the Omaha.
• Lion, of the Deer-head gens, said that there were four subgentes, but this was denied in 1882 by Two Crows of the Hanga gens.
• Stones are also gathered and roughly dressed, and in all these operations he is assisted by his friends, usually of his own gens.
• Good Voice, of the Mink’in gens, knew the history of the Female Beaver, but he failed to keep his promise to dictate it to the author.
• A Dolabella, who belongs to the gens Cornelia, as we have seen, heads the list as duovir.

Similar words containing GEN without suffix s

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