Other Definitions
gender (enc)
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Gender| Noun | 1. | gender - 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 animatenessfeminine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female masculine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male neuter - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) | | | 2. | gender - the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus" | |
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