gender, n.
(genders)
freq. cnt. 3
(genders)
freq. cnt. 3
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
<noun.communication> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3
gender grammatical gender
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the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
<noun.attribute>
gender sex sexuality
sample sentences
"she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
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derivationally related form
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derivationally related form
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