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Definition gender

Etymology 1

From Middle English (see also gendres), from Middle French gendre, genre, from Latin genus (“kind, sort”). Doublet of genre, genus, and kin. The verb developed after the noun.

Noun

gender (countable and uncountable, plural genders)

1. Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.) [from 20th c.]
2. (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). [from 15th c.]
3. (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. [from 14th c.]
4. (grammar) Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”)
5. (hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
6. (obsolete) Class; kind. [14th-19th c.]

Verb

gender (third-person singular simple present genders, present participle gendering, simple past and past participle gendered)

1. (sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
2. (sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

Etymology 2

From Middle English gendren, genderen, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin gener?re.

Verb

gender (third-person singular simple present genders, present participle gendering, simple past and past participle gendered)

1. (archaic) To engender.
2. (archaic or obsolete) To breed.

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