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gender

noun

1 gender

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.

synonym: grammatical gender.

Dutch: genus, gender, geslacht
Polish: rodzaj gramatyczny, rodzaj

2 gender

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

synonyms: sex, sexuality.

Roget 75: class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.    kind, sort, genus, ... show more

Roget 374a: sex, sexuality, gender; male, masculinity, maleness etc. 373; female, femininity etc. 374.    sexual intercourse, copulation, ... show more

Dutch: sexualiteit, geslacht, geslachtsleven, kunne, seks, sekse, seksualiteit
Polish: płciowość


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