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Defenition of the word gender

    • Defenition of the word gender

      • Either of two main divisions (either male or female) into which many organisms can be placed, according to reproductive function or organs.
      • Arbitrarily specified category of a word as used in some languages, governing the agreement between words.
      • To become pregnant.
      • 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
      • the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
      • the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn''t want to know the sex of the foetus"
      • the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

    Synonyms for the word gender

      • grammatical gender
      • sex
      • sexuality

    Hyponyms for the word gender

      • androgyny
      • bisexuality
      • femaleness
      • feminine
      • feminineness
      • hermaphroditism
      • maleness
      • masculine
      • masculinity
      • neuter

    Hypernyms for the word gender

      • grammatical category
      • physiological property
      • syntactic category

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