Synonyms:
name, gens
Meaning: family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"
Usage examples
"How long, father," queried Sarka, "should it take to empty the Gens areas?"
"Then what of the Spokesmen of the Gens, who will be out of contact with me?"
The dwellings of the Gens of Dalis were broken and smashed into chaotic ruins.
People dressed in the clothing of this Gens or that, wearing each the insignia of the house of his Spokesman.
Multiply that shoreline by the vast area which had housed the Gens of Dalis, and the mental picture is almost too big to grasp.
Through its display flew the people of the Gens, mustering in flight above flight, each to his own level, under command of the Spokesmen of the Gens.
The Gens of Dalis had occupied all the territory northward to the Pole, from a line drawn east and west through the southernmost of what had once been the Hawaiian Islands.
The Spokesmen of the Gens whose borders touched those of the devasted Dalis area, were reporting again, and their voices were high pitched with fear that threatened to break the bounds of sanity.
Stranger, more thrilling even than had been the flight of the Earth after being forced out of its orbit, was the flight of those dozen aircars of the Moon, bearing the rebels of Dalis' Gens back to Earth.
"Spokesmen of the Gens, make sure that every individual member of your Gens is fully equipped with flying clothing including belts and ovoids--prepared for an indefinite stay outside on the roof of the world!