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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 | ||
| Synonyms | grammatical 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 | ||
| Samples | She didn't want to know the sex of the foetus. | ||
| Synonyms | sex, sexuality | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | physiological property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | androgyny, bisexuality, femaleness, feminineness, hermaphroditism, maleness, masculinity | ||
| Attribute | androgynous, asexual, female, male, nonsexual, sexual | ||
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