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 |
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| Synonyms | grammatical gender |
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| Broader (hypernym) | grammatical category, syntactic category |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | feminine, masculine, neuter |
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2. | gender (attribute) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |
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| Samples | She didn't want to know the sex of the foetus.
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| Synonyms | sex, sexuality |
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| Broader (hypernym) | physiological property |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | androgyny, bisexuality, femaleness, feminineness, hermaphroditism, maleness, masculinity |
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| Attribute | androgynous, asexual, female, male, nonsexual, sexual |
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