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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


Synonymsgender


Broader (hypernym)grammatical category, syntactic category


Narrower (hyponym)feminine, masculine, neuter









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