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gender::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | sex, sexuality |
| Type of | physiological property |
| Has types | masculinity, bisexuality, femaleness, feminineness, hermaphroditism, maleness, androgyny |
gender::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | grammatical gender |
| Type of | syntactic category, grammatical category |
| Has types | masculine, feminine, neuter |
Examples of gender
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Guessing the gender of an unknown author became part of the pleasure of reading.
From the newsweek.com
Not so long ago, we celebrated comedic gender-based depictions of military life.
From the bostonherald.com
Bennett is a NEWSWEEK senior writer covering society, youth culture, and gender.
From the newsweek.com
It makes absolutely no sense that we're the gender that doesn't wear high heels.
From the time.com
On the other side are women who argue that gender is still a barrier to success.
From the businessweek.com
Fifty-seven-year-old Lana Lawless underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2005.
From the sfgate.com
If you are of a certain gender and age, this is the funniest stuff in the world.
From the time.com
I think in India it is illegal to determine the gender of the baby before birth.
From the economist.com
Which can lead to dysfunction, where the orientations to do with GENDER, do not.
From the latimes.com
- 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
- Sex: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
- Gender is the wide set of characteristics that are seen to distinguish between male and female. It can extend from sex to social role or gender identity. As a word, "gender" has more than one valid definition. ...
- A gendu00E8r is a type of metallophone used in Balinese and Javanese gamelan music. It consists of 10 to 14 tuned metal bars suspended over a tuned resonator of bamboo or metal, which are tapped with a mallet made of wooden disks (Bali) or a padded wooden disk (Java). Each key is a note of a different pitch, often extending a little more than two octaves...
- Gondar or Gonder (Amharic: u130Eu1295u12F0u122D?, Gonder or Gondu00E4r; formerly u1310u1295u12F0u122D, Gu02B7andar or Gu02B7ender) is a city and separate woreda in Ethiopia. Located in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, Gondar is north of Tana Lake on the Lesser Angereb River and southwest of the Simien Mountains. It has a latitude and longitude of 12u00B036u2032N 37u00B028u2032EuFEFF / uFEFF12.600u00B0N 37.467u00B0EuFEFF / 12.600; 37...
- In linguistics, grammatical genders are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words; every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be very few that belong to several classes at once.
- A gender role is a theoretical construct in the social sciences and humanities that refers to a set of social and behavioral norms that, within a specific culture, are widely considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific gender. ...
- The Gender is a stream in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant. It originates in originally marshy flatlands near Steensel and flows through Veldhoven and its eastern district Meerveldhoven in a general east-northeast direction towards Eindhoven.
- A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common; A division between classes or kinds; The mental analog of sex: one's maleness, femaleness, etc. ...
