Thesaurus: gender

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1. n. Kind; sort.
2. n. Sex, male or female.
3. n. A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
4. n. To beget; to engender.
5. v. i. To copulate; to breed.
6. n. 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
7. n. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
8. 1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] "One gender of herbs." Shak. 2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.] 3. (Gram.) 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 and applies to living objects. R. Morris. Note: Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer. To beget; to engender. To copulate; to breed. [R.] Shak.
9. A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; andsecondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associatedwith sex.Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex isnatural distinction and applies to living objects. R. Morris.
10. n:100 n. 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