gender
//ˈdʒɛndər//
Noun
Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.
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The state of being male or female as expressed by social or cultural distinctions and differences, rather than biological ones; the collective attributes or traits associated with a particular sex, or determined as a result of one's sex.
Gender roles vary greatly across different cultures.
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.
In French, nouns have grammatical gender and can be either masculine or feminine.
Synonym
Verb
To assign a gender to; to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives) that express a particular gender.
Some languages gender all nouns as either masculine or feminine.