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Vinony

gens

noun

  1. a type of clan division that existed in ancient Rome, signified by a persons nomen
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɛnz/

name

Etymology: Borrowed from German Gens, a variant of Jens.

  1. A surname from German.

noun

Etymology: Clipping of generations.

  1. plural of gen (clipping of generation).

    “For my fellow first-gens, get ready to hide a smirk, because your life story is likely hidden somewhere in this chapter. For the uninitiated—that is, the person who's never had a thing to do with the Arab way of doing things (namely dating)—I advise you to buckle up.”

    “[…] I witness firsthand the difficult "downstream" outcomes (Grusky 2014) of social class stratification in a university setting where approximately 3,400 undergraduates (13% of the undergraduate population) are first in their families to attend and/or graduate from college (first-gens). Most of these students are low income and nearly 1,200 first-gens have grown up in poverty.”