Definition of gender
Nouns
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
- Synonyms:
- grammatical gender
- Types:
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feminine
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
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masculine
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male
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neuter
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
- Type of:
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grammatical category, syntactic category
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
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maleness, masculinity
the properties characteristic of the male sex
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virility
the masculine property of being capable of copulation and procreation
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androgyny, bisexuality, hermaphroditism
showing characteristics of both sexes
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femaleness, feminineness
the properties characteristic of the female sex
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physiological property
a property having to do with the functioning of the body
Vocabulary Lists for gender
Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" Chapters 1-12 »(287 words)
Vocabulary study list for Charles Dickens' "A Tale of...
- incommodious
- cogitate
- endue
- immolate
- commiserate
Lois Lowry's "The Giver" Chapter 1 »(99 words)
Vocabulary study list for Lois Lowry's "The Giver"...
- childcare
- nightclothes
- family unit
- overfly
- street cleaner
Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield" Chapters 1-7 »(488 words)
Vocabulary study list for Charles Dickens' "David...
- sweetbriar
- caul
- rookery
- confuse
- crawfish
- abuse
- alive
- allow
- application
- Arabic
- almanac
- argumentation
- atlas
- autobiography
- background knowledge