gender

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

genders

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more gender

Superlative

most gender

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

gender

past (v2)

gendered

past participle (v3)

gendered

present participle

gendering

3rd person singular

genders

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).

   • The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.
   • Gender does not necessarily have primacy in this respect. Economic class and ethnic differentiation can also be important relational hierarchies, […].

2. 2.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.

   • The common gender might well reflect an IE animate gender.
   • The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity.
   • Pronouns, for instance, are structures that organise information about continuous referents. This information is typically categorised in Romani according to Person, Number, Gender, Animacy, Case, and Discreteness.

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

   • The general distinction is between three 'genders' out of the five genders of the Latin tradition: active gender, passive gender, neuter gender.

4. 4.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.)

   • Gender roles are indistinct among the young if the two sexes play together frequently.
   • In President Trump’s America, there may be only two genders, but our military adventures can identify however they please.
   • Intersex people too challenge the idea that physical sex, not merely gender, is binary – a person must be definitively either one sex or the other.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 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.

   • In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2).

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

   • At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly.
   • Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses.
   • Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes.

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.

   • Whenever I work triceps at the gym I feel most Gender (tm).
   • This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.

Overall

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Common

Literature

Rare