grammatical 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) |