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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026gen•der1 /ˈdʒɛndɚ/USA pronunciation
n.
- Grammar
- [uncountable] a set of grammatical categories applied to nouns, membership in a particular category being shown by the form of the noun itself or the choice of words that refer to or modify it:Gender is often correlated in part with sex or animateness, as in the choice ofhe to replace the man, she to replace the woman, or it to replace the table. Gender is sometimes assigned without regard to the meaning of the noun, as in French le livre (masculine) "the book'' or German das Mädchen (neuter) "the girl.''
- [countable] one of the categories in such a set, as masculine, feminine, neuter, or common:By some classifications, Swahili has as many as eleven genders or noun classes.
- sex: [uncountable]discrimination on the grounds of gender.[countable]the feminine and masculine genders.
See -gen-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026gen•der1
( jen′dər),USA pronunciation n.
- Grammar
- 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).
- Grammarone class of such a set.
- Grammarsuch classes or sets collectively or in general.
- Grammarmembership of a word or grammatical form, or an inflectional form showing membership, in such a class.
- sex:the feminine gender.
- [Archaic.]kind, sort, or class.
- Latin gener- (stem of genus) kind, sort
- Middle French gendre, genre
- Middle English 1300–50
- [Archaic.]to engender.
- [Obs.]to breed.
- Latin generāre to beget, derivative of genus gender1, genus1
- Middle French gendrer
- Middle English gendren, genderen 1300–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
gender /ˈdʒɛndə/ n - the state of being male or female with reference to socially and culturally defined characteristics of masculinity or femininity, or of having an identity that does not correspond to such characteristics
- informal all the members of one sex: the female gender
- informal the state of being male, female, or neuter
- a set of two or more grammatical categories into which the nouns of certain languages are divided, sometimes but not necessarily corresponding to the sex of the referent when animate
- any of the categories, such as masculine, feminine, neuter, or common, within such a set
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French gendre, from Latin genus kind
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