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As nouns the difference between gens and family

is that gens is while family is (lb) a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood or marriage); for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

As an adjective family is

suitable for children and adults.

gens

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from generations.

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (head)
  • generations
  • See also
    * gen

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia gens) From (etyl) ; see also gentile, gender, genus, generate.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related by birth, marriage or adoption, but allowing a greater amount of time between members and their common ancestor than is commonly implied by the term related.
  • (anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.
  • * 1919 , :
  • The taboos, the laws, the rules of genses , tribes, and nations, from the lowest to the highest, are upheld by a vague terror and sacred awe which society impresses on man by threats of ill-luck, fearful evil, and terrible punishments befalling sinners and transgressors of the tabooed, of the holy and the forbidden, charged with a mysterious, highly contagious, and virulently infective life-consuming energy.

    Usage notes

    (historical Roman unit of society) The concept is close to and often translated as clan, but the two are not identical. The alternative tribe is also sometimes used, but the (etyl) tribus has a separate meaning.

    Synonyms

    (historical Roman unit of society) clan, tribe

    Anagrams

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    family

    English

    Noun

  • (lb) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood or marriage); for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family' perhaps at a critical moment, when the ' family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
  • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • (lb) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
  • *1915', William T. Groves, ''A History and Genealogy of the Groves '''Family in America
  • (lb) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
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  • A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
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  • *:The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: a elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally.
  • (lb) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
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  • A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
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  • A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
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  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

    Usage notes

    * In some dialects, (family) is used as a plurale tantum.

    Synonyms

    * see also * see also nuclear family, immediate family, extended family

    Derived terms

    * family of curves (matematics)

    Adjective

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  • Suitable for children and adults.
  • It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
    Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
  • Conservative, traditional.
  • The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
  • (slang) Homosexual.
  • I knew he was family when I first met him.

    Derived terms

    * baby of the family * blended family * extended family * family affair * family business * family dissident * family doctor * family heirloom * family history * family jewels * family leave * family man * family medicine * family name * family planning * family rebel * family rebellion * family restaurant * family reunion * family tree * family values * first family * foster family * framily * immediate family * in a family way * keep it in the family * language family * nuclear family * royal family

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