1. Family based on male descent
   "The Roman gens was an important social structure in ancient times";
   - name

1. Details or other material about something
   "give me the gen on your new line of computers";
   - information, info [informal]

Derived forms: gentes

Type of: content, fam [informal], family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, kith and kin, message, phratry, subject matter, substance

Encyclopedia: Gens