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1. (n.) gender
a set of grammatical categories applied to nouns, shown by the form of the noun itself or the choice of words that modify, replace, or refer to it, often correlated in part with sex or animateness, as in the choice of he to replace the man,she to replace the woman, or it to replace the table, but sometimes based on arbitrary assignment without regard to the referent of the noun, as in French le livre (masculine) “the book” or German das Mädchen (neuter) “the girl.”
2. gender
one of the categories in such a set, as masculine, feminine, neuter, or common.
3. gender
membership of a word or grammatical form in such a category.
4. gender
sex:
the feminine gender.
5. gender
the societal or behavioral aspects of sexual identity:
gender studies.
6. gender
Archaic. kind, sort, or class.
7. (v.i.) gender
Archaic. to engender.
8. gender
Obs. to breed.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME < MF gendrer < L generāre to beget; see generate)
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| Definition of 'gender' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) gender, grammatical gender
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
2. (noun) sex, gender, sexuality
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
"she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
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1. (noun) gender
sb's status as male or female
Please state your age, race and gender.; gender differences/relations
2. gender
in grammar, the status of a word as masculine, feminine, or neuter
***the gender of the noun
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) gender
kind; sort
2. (noun) gender
sex, male or female
3. (noun) gender
a classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex
4. (noun) gender
to beget; to engender
5. (verb) gender
to copulate; to breed
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Sense: any of a number of classes into which nouns and pronouns can be divided (eg masculine, feminine, neuter).
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 Afrikaans: geslag |
 Arabic: جِنْس |
 Bulgarian: род |
 Brazilian: gênero |
 Czech: rod |
 German: das Genus, das Geschlecht |
 Danish: køn |
 Greek: γένος |
 Spanish: género |
 Estonian: sugu |
 Farsi: جنسیت |
 Finnish: suku |
 French: genre |
 Hebrew: מִין, מִגדַר |
 Hindi: लिंग |
 Croatian: rod |
 Hungarian: nem |
 Indonesian: jenis |
 Icelandic: kyn |
 Italian: genere |
 Japanese: 性 |
 Korean: 성(性) |
 Lithuanian: giminė |
 Latvian: (gramatikā) dzimte |
 Malay: jantina |
 Dutch: geslacht |
 Norwegian: kjønn, genus |
 Polish: rodzaj |
 Persian: جنسیت |
 Pashto: جنس، ښځينه، نارينه اومنح |
 Portuguese: género |
 Romanian: gen |
 Russian: род |
 Slovak: rod |
 Slovenian: spol |
 Serbian: rod |
 Swedish: genus |
 Thai: เพศ |
 Turkish: cinsiyet |
 Taiwanese: (語法)性 |
 Ukrainian: стать |
 Urdu: جنس مذکر مؤنث یا بے جنس ا |
 Vietnamese: (ngôn ngữ học) giống |
 Chinese: （语法）性 |
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