Gender
WordNet
noun
(1) The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
"She didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
(2) 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
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Etymology
From < / < , from .
Noun
- A division between classes or kinds. E.g., the common gender.
- differences between men and women, suggesting but not necessitating reference to sex
- gender role; culture specific behaviour norms, normally but not necessarily, associated with one’s sex; condition of adopting such a gender role.
- A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common.
- The sex of individuals (male or female).