Look up: Gender

1. gender
   Type: Term Pronunciation: jen′dĕr Definitions: 1. Category to which an individual is assigned by self or others, on the basis of sex.
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2. Gender
   The fact that you are male or female.
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3. Gender
   Social expectations about behaviour regarded as appropriate for the members of each sex. Gender does not refer to the physical attributes in terms of which men and women differ, but to socially formed traits of masculinity and femininity. The study of gender relations has become one of the most impo...
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4. gender
   [n] - a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives
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5. gender
   the social distinction between males and females.
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6. Gender
   the social aspects of differences and hierarchies between female or male
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7. gender
   2 types of gender are distinguished in linguistics --- natural gender, where items refer to the sex of real world entities, and grammatical gender, which has nothing to do with sex, but which signals grammatical relationships between words in a sentence and which is shown e.g. by the form of the article or the noun.
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8. gender
   a concept that refers to the social differences between women and men that have been learned, are changeable over time and have wide variations both within and between cultures Category: Man and society • a grammatical category based on the forms of nouns,pronouns,adjectives and articles Category: Language and literature
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9. Gender
   Gen'der (jĕn'dẽr) noun [ Old French genre , gendre (with excrescent d .), French genre , from Latin genus , generis , birth, descent, race, kind, gender, from the root of genere , gign...
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10. Gender
    Gen'der transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gendered ; present participle & verbal noun Gendering .] [ Old French gendrer , from Latin generare . See Gender...
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11. Gender
    Gen'der intransitive verb To copulate; to breed. [ R.] Shak.
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12. gender
    1. Kind; sort. 'One gender of herbs.' ... 2. Sex, male or female. ... 3. A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. 'Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction...
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13. gender
    grammatical gender noun 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-Euro...
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14. gender
    (jen´dәr) sex (def. 1).
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15. Gender
    • (n.) Kind; sort. • (n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. • (n.) To beget; to engender. • (n.) Sex, male or female. • (v. i.) To copulate; to breed.
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16. gender
    (from the article `percussion instrument`) ...a trough metallophone depicted as early as about 800 on the Borobuur stupa (Buddhist monument), Java, and the frame metallophone gender, now ...
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17. gender
    in language, a phenomenon in which the words of a certain part of speech, usually nouns, require the agreement, or concord, through grammatical ... [11 related articles]
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18. Gender
    The sexual distinction between male and female. Once conception has occured, the baby's gender is determined based on the male's sperm that fertilized the egg. The Xx combination of sperm and egg create a female; the Xy are male.
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19. Gender
    The meanings that societies and individuals attach to being female and male.
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20. gender
    gender [Lat. genus=kind], in grammar, subclassification of nouns or nounlike words in which the members of the subclass have characteristic features of agreement with other words. The term gender is not usually considered to include the classification of number. In French, for example, there are two...
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21. Gender
    Gender is a set of two or more grammatical categories (masculine, feminine, neuter and common) into which the nouns and pronouns of certain languages are divided distinguished by the modification which they require in words syntactically associated with them, and roughly corresponding (though by no ...
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22. gender
    In grammar, one of the categories into which nouns are divided in many languages, such as masculine, feminine, and neuter (as in Latin, German, and Russian), masculine and feminine (as in French, Italian, and Spanish), or animate and inanimate (as in some American Indian languages)
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23. Gender
    `Gender` is a range of characteristics distinguishing between male and female, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity. Sexologi...
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24. Gender
    (disambiguation) `Gender`, in linguistics, the distinction between masculine and feminine in written language and grammar/syntax. `Gender` also refers to the distinction between male and female individuals, especially with regard to non-biological differences. Finally, `Gender` often is used ...
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