Definitions for gender

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gender gen·der

Spelling: [jen-der]

IPA: /ˈdʒɛn dər/

Gender is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in gender (deegnr).

Definitions for gender

noun

1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior: Compare sex (def 1).
2. a similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification and is based on the individual's personal awareness or identity. See also third gender.
3. Grammar. (in many languages) a set of classes that together include all nouns, membership in a particular class being shown by the form of the noun itself or by the form or choice of words that modify, replace, or otherwise refer to the noun, as, in English, the choice of he to replace the man, of she to replace the woman, of it to replace the table, of it or she to replace the ship. The number of genders in different languages varies from 2 to more than 20; often the classification correlates in part with sex or animateness. The most familiar sets of genders are of three classes (as masculine, feminine, and neuter in Latin and German) or of two (as common and neuter in Dutch, or masculine and feminine in French and Spanish). one class of such a set. such classes or sets collectively or in general. membership of a word or grammatical form, or an inflectional form showing membership, in such a class.
4. Archaic. kind, sort, or class.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Archaic. to engender.
2. Obsolete. to breed.

Origin of gender

1300-50; Middle English Middle French gendre, genre Latin gener- (stem of genus) kind, sort

Examples for gender

There is no gender distinction in the third person in Cherokee.

There are only three grammatical cases in which gender matters at all.

There have been changes in our society on issues of sexual and gender justice.

Entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa is a vocal proponent of gender diversity.

gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change.

The unfortunate reality is that race, gender, and economic status do matter when justice is meted out.

The difference of gender in nouns is utilized for the same reason.

Neither nouns nor adjectives undergo any change for gender, number or case.

Servants sometimes say "she" of a clock, but every one gives a gender to vessels.

Or have gender roles in stories become fewer and more rigid?