gender

gen·der  (jndr)

n.

1. Grammar

a. A grammatical category 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. One category of such a set.

c. The classification of a word or grammatical form in such a category.

d. The distinguishing form or forms used.

2. Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture.

3.

a. The condition of being female or male; sex.

b. Females or males considered as a group: expressions used by one gender.

tr.v. gen·dered, gen·der·ing, gen·ders

To engender.

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[Middle English gendre, from Old French, kind, gender, from Latin genus, gener-; see gen- in Indo-European roots.]

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gender·less adj.

Usage Note: Traditionally, gender has been used primarily to refer to the grammatical categories of "masculine," "feminine," and "neuter," but in recent years the word has become well established in its use to refer to sex-based categories, as in phrases such as gender gap and the politics of gender. This usage is supported by the practice of many anthropologists, who reserve sex for reference to biological categories, while using gender to refer to social or cultural categories. According to this rule, one would say The effectiveness of the medication appears to depend on the sex (not gender) of the patient, but In peasant societies, gender (not sex) roles are likely to be more clearly defined. This distinction is useful in principle, but it is by no means widely observed, and considerable variation in usage occurs at all levels.

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gender

Noun

1. the state of being male, female, or neuter

2. the classification of nouns in certain languages as masculine, feminine, or neuter [Latin genus kind]

Thesaurus

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 animateness grammatical gender grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties feminine - 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" sexuality, sex physiological property - a property having to do with the functioning of the body maleness, masculinity - the properties characteristic of the male sex androgyny, bisexuality, hermaphroditism - showing characteristics of both sexes femaleness, feminineness - the properties characteristic of the female sex

Translations

gender [ˈdʒɛndəʳ] n → género

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gender [ˈdʒɛndəʳ] n → genre m (= person's sex); sexe m

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gender [ˈdʒɛndəʳ] n → Geschlecht nt

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gender [ˈdʒɛndəʳ] n → genere m

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gender

n gender [ˈdʒendə]

any of a number of classes into which nouns and pronouns can be divided (eg masculine, feminine, neuter). geslag جِنْس род rod køn das Genus, das Geschlecht γένος género sugu جنسیت suku genre מִין, מִגדַר लिंग rod nem jenis kyn genere 性 (문법) 성(性) giminė (gramatikā) dzimte jantina geslacht kjønn, genus rodzaj género gen род rod spol rod genus เพศ cinsiyet (語法)性 стать جنس مذکر مؤنث یا بے جنس اسما کی تخصیص (ngôn ngữ học) giống （语法）性