gent vs male

gent and male both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gent	Yes	No	No	No
male	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, male is a hypernym of gent; that is, male is a word with a broader meaning than gent:

Other hypernyms of gent include male person.

gent (noun)	male (noun)
informal abbreviation of `gentleman'	an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)
a boy or man	a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies

gent (adjective)	male (adjective)
	being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
	for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
	characteristic of a man