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gender

gender

2 4.2
A class of nouns and words like masculine or feminine that change word forms
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒɛndər/
  • Specialized
: género gramatical
  • We don't tolerate gender bias in this house.
  • gender classes
  • gender-neutral

You can change the age, gender, number of a character.

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Examples

  • In many languages, nouns must agree with their corresponding gender for proper grammatical structure.

  • It's like a third gender.

    The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

  • The entire female gender is separated into two groups.

    Disturbing Behavior (1998)

  • And I decided to focus explicitly on gender classification.

  • A noun and all its modifiers must agree in gender, case, and number.

    MIT OpenCourseWare

  • Participant information, including age, gender, and VC, appears in Table 1.

    Academic text (2011)

  • In 1985, Parliament amended the act to remove more than 100 years of legislated gender discrimination.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Information was obtained for each student describing age, gender, grade, ethnicity, and eligibility for gifted services.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The link to the surveys was sent to schools with single-gender classrooms.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The majority of the teachers report that participating in single-gender classrooms improved males' behavior, participation, and attitude toward school.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

grammatical gender
vsgender
  • Specialized
1 7.7

A system in some languages that puts nouns into groups like masculine or feminine

is the underlying grammatical category described by that technical label
linga
vsgender
  • Specialized
9.9

The gender of a noun in Sanskrit, like masculine or feminine

is the general grammatical category not limited to Sanskrit contexts

Idioms

to play the gender card
  • Literature
1 8.0

To mention someone's gender to gain an advantage in a discussion

to pull the gender card
  • Literature
8.4

To mention being a woman or man to avoid blame and get sympathy

Compounds

gender identity
23 4.0

A person's inner feeling about being male, female, both, or neither

gender role
19 3.4

Ideas in a society about how men and women should behave

grammatical gender
  • Specialized
1 7.7

A system in some languages that puts nouns into groups like masculine or feminine

gender identities
1 4.4

Different ways people understand and show themselves as male, female, both, or neither

gender agreement
  • Specialized
6.2

Words in a phrase use the same masculine or feminine form

Surface Forms

gender singular
genders plural

Etymology

Gender comes from the old root gen- meaning 'kind' or 'birth', the same root you see in generate and gene. In grammar it means a 'kind' of noun, so masculine, feminine or neuter are simply different 'kinds' of words.