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gen—der noun \ɑjen-dər\

: the state of being male or female

grammar : one of the categories (masculine, feminine, and

neuter) into which words (such as nouns, adjectives, and
pronouns) are divided in many languages

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1 a : a subclass within a grammatical class (as noun, Test Your Knowledge »

pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly
arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable True or False?
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b : membership of a word or a grammatical form in such a
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c : an inflectional form showing membership in such a
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2 a : SEX <the feminine gender> Favorite Pictures in the

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b : the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically
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Middle English gendre, from Anglo-French genre, gendre,
from Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind, gender — more
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Rhymes with GENDER

bender, blender, fender, lender, mender, render, sender,

slender, spender, splendor, tender, vendor

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gender verb

gen—dered gen—der—ing

Definition of GENDER

: ENGENDER

Origin of GENDER

Middle English gendren, from Anglo-French gendrer, from

Latin generare — more at GENERATE
First Known Use: 14th century

gen—der noun \ɑjen-dər\ (Medical Dictionary)

Medical Definition of GENDER

1 : SEX 1

2 : the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits

typically associated with one sex

gender noun (Concise Encyclopedia)

In language, a grammatical category contrasting distinctions

of sex or animateness. Gender marking may be natural, with
linguistic markers of gender corresponding to real-world
gender, or purely grammatical, with markers of gender in
part semantically based and in part semantically arbitrary. In
languages with grammatical gender, nouns are partitioned
into sets. Membership of a noun in a set may be expressed
by its form and/or by the forms of other parts of speech
controlled by the noun. Closely related to gender systems in
language are class systems, as in BANTU LANGUAGEs, in which
the number of sets into which nouns are partitioned is much
larger, with distinct categories for things such as plants,
animals, and tools, though, as with nouns in Romance and
Germanic languages, assignment of most nouns to classes is
semantically arbitrary.

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