Synonyms of the word

gens

• abbr. generations.
• n. (historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related by birth, marriage…
• n. (anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along…

family

• n. (countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption);…
• n. (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
• n. (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon…
• n. (countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing…
• n. (countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
• n. (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
• n. Used attributively.
• adj. Suitable for children and adults.
• adj. Conservative, traditional.
• adj. (slang) Homosexual.

folk

• adj. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
• adj. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
• adj. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
• adj. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
• n. (archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
• n. The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
• n. (plural only, plural: folks) One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
• n. (music) Folk music.
• n. (plural only) People in general.
• n. (plural only) A particular group of people.

kinfolk

• n. (US, also in plural) Relatives, relations.

kinsfolk

• n. Alternative spelling of kinfolk.

name

• n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
• n. Reputation.
• n. An abusive or insulting epithet.
• n. A person (or legal person).
• n. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
• n. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
• n. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
• v. (transitive) To give a name to.
• v. (transitive) To mention, specify.
• v. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important.
• v. (transitive) To publicly implicate.
• v. (transitive) To designate for a role.
• n. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

phratry

• n. (Ancient Greece) A clan or kinship group consisting of a number of families claiming descent from a common…
• n. (anthropology, dated) A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate…

sept

• n. A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in…
• v. (nonstandard, rare) simple past tense and past participle of seep.