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Gender

ˈdʒɛndə

Gender definitions
noun
gender genders
  1. the male sex or the female sex, especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones, or one of a range of other identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female

    "the singer has opted to keep the names and genders of her twins private"

    • members of a particular gender considered as a group

      "social interaction between the genders"

    • the fact or condition of belonging to or identifying as having a particular gender

      "video ads will target users based only on age and gender"

  2. (in languages such as Latin, French, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections which they have and which they require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with distinctions of sex
    • the property (in nouns and related words) of belonging to a grammatical gender

      "adjectives usually agree with the noun in gender and number"

verb
gender gendered gendering genders
  1. classify as having a particular gender, or as being suitable only for people with a particular gender

    "family members made sure official police reports gendered the victims correctly"

  2. give (a word) grammatical gender

    "many words are gendered by masculine and feminine vowels"