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gender

/ gender /
noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
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
Type of:
grammatical category syntactic category
Kinds of:
feminine masculine neuter
noun Sense 2
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
"she didn''t want to know the sex of the foetus"
Type of:
physiological property
Kinds of:
maleness masculinity androgyny hermaphroditism bisexuality
Derived:
sex
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
2
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
12
Times Searched
3
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grammatical category syntactic category feminine masculine neuter physiological property maleness masculinity androgyny hermaphroditism bisexuality