gender

noun

  1. 1

    the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

    she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus

  2. 2

    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

Synonyms

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