gens

gens has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• a.. 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.. A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.
• n.. family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"