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Definitions for Gender
[1] either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior: the feminine gender. Compare sex(def 1) .
[2] a similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification and is based on the individual's personal awareness or identity. See also third gender.
[3] Grammar . (in many languages) a set of classes that together include all nouns, membership in a particular class being shown by the form of the noun itself or by the form or choice of words that modify, replace, or otherwise refer to the noun, as, in English, the choice of he to replace the man, of she to replace the woman, of it to replace the table, of it or she to replace the ship. The number of genders in different languages varies from 2 to more than 20; often the classification correlates in part with sex or animateness. The most familiar sets of genders are of three classes (as masculine, feminine, and neuter in Latin and German) or of two (as common and neuter in Dutch, or masculine and feminine in French and Spanish). one class of such a set. such classes or sets collectively or in general. membership of a word or grammatical form, or an inflectional form showing membership, in such a class.
[4] Archaic . kind, sort, or class.
[5] Archaic . to engender.
[6] Obsolete . to breed.
[7] a set of two or more grammatical categories into which the nouns of certain languages are divided, sometimes but not necessarily corresponding to the sex of the referent when animate See also natural gender
[8] any of the categories, such as masculine, feminine, neuter, or common, within such a set
[9] informal the state of being male, female, or neuter
[10] informal all the members of one sex the female gender
Words related to Gender
feminine, common, masculine, neuter, gender-specific
Words nearby Gender
genappe, genappe yarn, genck, gendarme, gendarmerie, gender, gender bender, gender binary, gender dysphoria, gender equality, gender expression
Origin of Gender
21300–50; Middle English gendren, genderen < Middle French gendrer < Latin generāre to beget, derivative of genus gender1, genus
Other words from Gender
gen·der·less , adjective
Word origin for Gender
C14: from Old French gendre, from Latin genus kind