English noun: grammatical gender | |||
1. | grammatical gender (communication) 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 | ||
Synonyms | gender | ||
Broader (hypernym) | grammatical category, syntactic category | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | feminine, masculine, neuter | ||