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Gender

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Noun

1. gender, 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 animateness

2. gender, sex, sexuality

the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

Example Sentences:
'she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gender

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noun
1. 
the state of being male or female with reference to socially and culturally defined characteristics of masculinity or femininity
2. informal
all the members of one sex
the female gender
3. informal
the state of being male, female, or neuter
4. 
a set of two or more grammatical categories into which the nouns of certain languages are divided, sometimes but not necessarily corresponding to the sex of the referent when animate
See also natural gender
5. 
any of the categories, such as masculine, feminine, neuter, or common, within such a set

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Gender

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noun
1.  Grammar
a. 
the formal classification by which nouns are grouped and inflected, or changed in form, so as to reflect certain syntactic relationships: pronouns, modifiers, and verbs may also be so inflected: although gender is not a formal feature of English, some nouns and the third person singular pronouns are distinguished according to sex or the lack of sex (Ex.: man or he, masculine gender; woman or she, feminine gender; door or it, neuter gender): in most Indo-European languages, as well as in many others, gender is not necessarily correlated with sex
b. 
any one of such groupings, or an inflectional form showing membership in such a group
2. 
the fact or condition of being a male or a female human being, esp. with regard to how this affects or determines a person's self-image, social status, goals, etc.
verb transitive, verb intransitive archaic var. of
engender

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gender

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n.
1. Grammar
a. A grammatical category, often designated as male, female, or neuter, used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms.
b. The fact of being classified as belonging to such a category: agreement in gender, number, and case.
2.
a. Either of the two divisions, designated female and male, by which most organisms are classified on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions; sex.
b. One's identity as female or male or as neither entirely female nor entirely male.
c. Females or males considered as a group: Students lined up with the genders in different lines.
tr.v. gen·dered, gen·der·ing, gen·ders
Archaic
To engender.

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