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English noun: gender

1. 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


Synonymsgrammatical gender


Broader (hypernym)grammatical category, syntactic category


Narrower (hyponym)feminine, masculine, neuter

2. gender (attribute) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles


SamplesShe didn't want to know the sex of the foetus.


Synonymssex, sexuality


Broader (hypernym)physiological property


Narrower (hyponym)androgyny, bisexuality, femaleness, feminineness, hermaphroditism, maleness, masculinity


Attributeandrogynous, asexual, female, male, nonsexual, sexual









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