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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Gens \Gens\ (j[e^]nz), n.; pl. {Gentes} (j[e^]n"t[=e]z). [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.) A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American
        aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent,
        and bear the same totem.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gens
       n : family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was
           no one to carry on his name" [syn: {name}]
       [also: {gentes} (pl)]

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