Gender

Quick meaning: Gender is a noun meaning (grammar) Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).

Meaning

(grammar) Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).

More Meanings

1. (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
2. (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
3. (sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
4. (sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
5. Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
6. (hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
7. (obsolete) Class; kind.

Example Sentences

the gene is activated in both genders

The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.

[…]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…]

Gender does not necessarily have primacy in this respect. Economic class and ethnic differentiation can also be important relational hierarchies, […].

Word Forms

• genders
• gendering
• gendered

Synonyms for gender

Depending on context, synonyms include genre, gendersex, voice, sex, sexuality.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sexuality, sex, mainstreaming, nature, generate, such.

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