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Definition of Gender
1. 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.
Generic synonyms: Grammatical Category, Syntactic Category
Specialized synonyms: Feminine, Masculine, Neuter
2. Noun. The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles. "She didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
Generic synonyms: Physiological Property
Specialized synonyms: Maleness, Masculinity, Androgyny, Bisexuality, Hermaphroditism, Femaleness, Feminineness
Attributes: Male, Female, Androgynous, Sexual, Asexual, Nonsexual
Derivative terms: Sex, Sexual
Definition of Gender
1. n. Kind; sort.
2. v. t. To beget; to engender.
3. v. i. To copulate; to breed.
Definition of Gender
1. Noun. (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common. ¹
2. Noun. The biological sex of an individual (usually male or female). ¹
3. Noun. The mental analogue of sex: one's maleness (masculinity) or femaleness (femininity). ¹
4. Noun. A socio-cultural phenomenon that divides people into various categories such as "male" and "female", with each having associated dress, roles, stereotypes, etc. ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) A division between classes or kinds. (rfex but other senses wouldn’t be bad too) ¹
6. Verb. to engender ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gender
1. to engender [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: engender
Medical Definition of Gender
1. 1. Kind; sort. "One gender of herbs." 2. Sex, male or female. 3. A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. "Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects." (R. Morris) Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer. Origin: OF. Genre, gendre (with excrescent d), F.genre, fr. L. Genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind, gender, fr. The root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass, to be born, akin to E. Kin. See Kin, and cf. Generate, Genre, Gentle, Genus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gender
Literary usage of Gender
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Old gender Forms.—There linger in the English language many old forms reminiscent
of its ... Some of these indicate grammatical gender in a fragmentary way. ..."
2. English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an by Lindley Murray (1829)
"Of gender. gender is the distinction of nouns, with regard to seji There are ...
The Feminine gender signifies animals of the female kind : as, a woman, ..."
3. The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (1851)
"The masculine gender is that which denotes persons or animals of the male ...
The gender of these is usually determined by the context ; and they are to be ..."
4. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"Thus, the form *DIA must have existed along with the earlier form, and in spite
of its ending, it has kept the masculine gender up to the present in Sp. dia ..."
5. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"gender Although current smoking prevalence is roughly equal among males and females
... Two studies have discussed the impact of changing gender roles (eg, ..."
6. The State Of Mathematics Achievement: Naep's 1990 Assessment Of The Nation by Ina V. S. Mullis (2004)
"PERFORMANCE BY gender TABLE 2.2 presents the mathematics proficiency results by
gender for the nation as a whole, and TABLE 2.3 presents results by gender ..."
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