| gender | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. gender, grammatical gender | 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. |
| ~ grammatical category, syntactic category | (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties. |
| ~ feminine | a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female. |
| ~ masculine | a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male. |
| ~ neuter | a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine). |
| n. (attribute) | 2. gender, sex, sexuality | the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles.; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus" |
| ~ physiological property | a property having to do with the functioning of the body. |
| ~ maleness, masculinity | the properties characteristic of the male sex. |
| ~ androgyny, bisexuality, hermaphroditism | showing characteristics of both sexes. |
| ~ femaleness, feminineness | the properties characteristic of the female sex. |
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