Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gens

1 sense of gens

Sense 1
name, gens -- (family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name")
       => family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry -- (people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gen

1 sense of gen

Sense 1
gen -- (informal term for information; "give me the gen on your new line of computers")
       => information, info -- (a message received and understood)