Definitions for gens
dʒɛnz; ˈdʒɛn tizgens

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. name, gensnoun

   family based on male descent

   "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gens

   The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. It was Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System. Sega released it in 1988 in Japan as the Mega Drive, and in 1989 in North America as the Genesis. In 1990, it was distributed as the Mega Drive by Virgin Mastertronic in Europe, Ozisoft in Australasia, and Tec Toy in Brazil. In South Korea, it was distributed by Samsung as the Super Gam*Boy and later the Super Aladdin Boy.Designed by an R&D team supervised by Hideki Sato and Masami Ishikawa, the Genesis was adapted from Sega's System 16 arcade board, centered on a Motorola 68000 processor as the CPU, a Zilog Z80 as a sound controller, and a video system supporting hardware sprites, tiles, and scrolling. It plays a library of more than 900 games on ROM-based cartridges. Several add-ons were released, including a Power Base Converter to play Master System games. It was released in several different versions, some created by third parties. Sega created two network services to support the Genesis: Sega Meganet and Sega Channel. In Japan, the Mega Drive fared poorly against its two main competitors, Nintendo's Super Famicom and NEC's PC Engine, but it achieved considerable success in North America, Brazil, and Europe. Contributing to its success was its library of arcade game ports, the popularity of Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series, several popular sports franchises, and aggressive youth marketing that positioned it as the cool console for adolescents. The 1991 North American release of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System triggered a fierce battle for market share in the United States and Europe known as the "console war". This drew attention to the video game industry, and the Genesis and several of its games attracted legal scrutiny on matters involving reverse engineering and video game violence. Controversy surrounding violent games such as Night Trap and Mortal Kombat led Sega to create the Videogame Rating Council, a predecessor to the Entertainment Software Rating Board. 30.75 million first-party Genesis units were sold worldwide. In addition, Tec Toy sold an estimated three million licensed variants in Brazil, Majesco projected it would sell 1.5 million licensed variants of the system in the United States and smaller numbers were sold by Samsung in South Korea. By the mid-2010s, licensed third-party Genesis rereleases were still being sold by AtGames in North America and Europe. Many games have been re-released in compilations or on online services such as the Nintendo Virtual Console, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and Steam. The Genesis was succeeded in 1994 by the Sega Saturn.

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1. gens

   "Gens" is a Latin term, which is often used today in the context of historical or anthropological discussions. It originally referred to a group of families in ancient Rome who shared a common name and claimed a common ancestor. In a broader context, it can be used to denote a clan, lineage, or a group of people who share a common characteristic/trait.

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1. Gensadjective

   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. Gensadjective

   a minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem

3. Etymology: [L. See Gentle, a.]

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1. Gens

   In ancient Rome, a gens, plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps. The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the period of the Roman Republic. Much of an individual's social standing depended on the gens to which he belonged. Certain gentes were considered patrician, others plebeian, while some had both patrician and plebeian branches. The importance of membership in a gens declined considerably in imperial times.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gens

   jenz, n. in ancient Rome, a clan including several families descended from a common ancestor: a tribe:—pl. Gen′tes. [L.]

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gens

   the name among the Romans for what we understand by the word clan as consisting of families.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gens

   In Roman antiquity, a clan, embracing several families, whose bond of alliance was a common name and certain religious rites performed in common. Persons of the same gens were called gentiles, while those of the same family were designated agnati.

2. gens

   (Fr.). A word in much desultory use among the French, signifying, in the general acceptation of it, people, servants, soldiers, etc. This word is likewise used to distinguish bodies of men that are in opposition to each other.

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1. GENS

   What does GENS stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GENS acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GENS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gens is ranked #40800 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Gens surname appeared 535 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Gens.
   
   93.2% or 499 total occurrences were White.
   4.1% or 22 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Family

How to pronounce gens?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say gens in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gens in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gens in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of gens in a Sentence

1. Werley Nortreus:

   Il y aurait moins de problèmes et de crimes dans le monde si les gens disaient la vérité même si la vérité blessait.

2. Paul Valery:

   La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

3. Werley Nortreus:

   Les gens qui aiment retirer la nourriture des lèvres des autres ne veulent jamais nourrir les gens par la suite. Il en est de même pour ceux qui veulent que les autres abandonnent leurs rêves pour leur plaire ou répondre à leurs besoins, ils n'ont jamais de meilleur rêve à offrir.

4. Charles de LEUSSE:

   People say they are alone. But at who do they say that ? (Les gens disent qu'ils sont seuls. Mais à qui le disent-ils ?)

5. Charles de LEUSSE:

   Hundred people enter more easily than a giant. A big reform passes less than a hundred of small. (Cent gens entrent mieux qu'un géant. - Une grosse réforme passe moins que cent.)

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gens
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gens
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gens
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=gens
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=gens
7. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Gens
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html