Gender

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Etymology

Middle English < Middle French gendre/genre < Latin genus ("kind", "sort") < PIE base *gen-/gon-/*gn- ("to produce", "to beget", "to be born").

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Noun

gender (plural: genders)

  1. (grammar{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}): A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common.
  2. A division between classes or kinds. E.g., the common gender.
  3. The collection of behavioural characteristics associated with one’s sex; condition of being masculine, feminine or androgynous.
  4. (euphemistically, or to avoid confusion with sex in the sense of sexual relations) Sex (male or female).
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Translations

sex

grammatical division

euphemism

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Transitive verb

to gender

  1. to engender

fr:gender io:gender fi:gender zh:gender

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