Gender

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A grammatical category, often designated as male, female, or neuter, used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms.
  • noun. The fact of being classified as belonging to such a category.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Either of the two divisions, designated female and male, by which most organisms are classified on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions; sex.
  • noun. One's identity as female or male or as neither entirely female nor entirely male.
  • noun. Females or males considered as a group.
  • transitive verb. To engender.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Kind; sort; class; genus.
  • noun. Sex, male or female.
  • noun. In grammar, a formal distinction in words, apparently founded on and in part expressing differences of sexual character, as male and female, or as male, female, or of neither sex (neuter).
  • To beget; procreate; generate; engender.
  • Hence To give rise to; bring out or forth.
  • To copulate; breed.
  • noun. A Javanese musical instrument of the xylophone class.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To beget; to engender.
  • noun. Kind; sort.
  • noun. Sex, male or female.
  • noun. A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
  • intransitive verb. To copulate; to breed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common.
  • noun. The biological sex of an individual (usually male or female).
  • noun. The mental analogue of sex: one's maleness (masculinity) or femaleness (femininity). (Also called gender identity.)
  • noun. The socio-cultural phenomenon of the division of people into various categories such as "male" and "female", with each having associated clothing, roles, stereotypes, etc.
  • noun. A division between classes or kinds.
  • verb. To assign (someone else) a gender; to perceive (someone else) as having a gender.
  • verb. To engender.
  • verb. To breed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
  • noun. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
  • Word Usage
    "Some words, then, have a gender quite apart from sex or real gender, and this is called «grammatical gender»."
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    beget  breed  copulate  engender  kind  
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