gender

Meaning

Verb

1. 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.
2. To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Class; kind.
2. Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
3. 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.)
4. 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.
5. Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”)
6. The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).

Adj

Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender.

Noun

An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.

Synonyms

sex

👉👌

genus

kind

sexuality

grammatical gender

race

family

👪

kin

species

engender

folk

genders

gene

genre

gens

give birth

house

🏠

ilk

issue

lineage

mankind

nature

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

procreate

produce

property

sexes

sort

stock

strain

style

surname

type

voice

way

Astarte

family line

male and female

distinction by sex

beget

sexuation

blood

🩸

breed

brood

castle

🏰

characteristic

conceive

custom

family name

feminine

Hyphenated as

gen‧der

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɛndə/

Etymology

From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.