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gender
/ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/
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What does gender mean?
noun
- Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
- Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
- A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
More meanings (9)
noun
- Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).
- The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
- An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
- (obsolete) Class; kind.
verb
- To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
- To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
- (archaic) To engender.
- (archaic, obsolete) To breed.
adjective
- Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/
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As in the old language there was no neuter gender, the gods must always appear either as female or male.
They make no distinction in gender, often the same name being applied to men and women.
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One is the male transformed into neuter gender; and the other is rampant with the fierceness of his sex.
Jude felt much depressed; she seemed to get further and further away from him with her strange ways and curious unconsciousness of gender.
But on Miss Mills observing, with despondency, that it were well indeed for some hearts if this were so, I explained that I begged leave to restrict the observation to mortals of the masculine gender.