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GENTES
GENS
name, gens
(noun) family based on male descent; “he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
gentes
plural of gens
Anagrams
• Genest, genets, genset, tenges
Source: Wiktionary
GENS
Gens, n.; pl. Gentes. Etym: [L. See Gentle, a.] (Rom. Hist.)
1. 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.
2. (Ethnol.)
Definition: A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.
GEN
-gen. Etym: [(1) From Gr. -gen-, from the same root as ge`nos race, stock (see Genus). (2) From Gr. suffix -genh`s born. Cf. F. -gène.]
1. A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.
2. A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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