gender.
Class; kind.
Meaning & usage
Class; kind.
Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
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.)
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.
Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).
The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. Displaced native Old English hād (“sex, gender”).
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.
To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. Displaced native Old English hād (“sex, gender”).
Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. Displaced native Old English hād (“sex, gender”).
To engender.
To breed.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin generāreder. Middle French gendrerder. Middle English gendren English gender Inherited from Middle English gendren, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre.
An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Indonesian gender.
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