Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).

    the gene is activated in both genders

    The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.

    Geschlecht

    полpol

    статьstatʹ

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

  2. (countable, uncountable)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.)

    Gender, soziales Geschlecht, Geschlecht

    полpol, ге́ндерgéndɛr

    статьstatʹ, ге́ндерhénder, ґе́ндерgénder

  3. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Geschlecht, Genus

    родrod

    рідrid

  4. (countable, uncountable)Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).

  5. (countable, uncountable)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).

  6. An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.

  7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Class; kind.

    Geschlecht

Examples

242 sentences
  1. Tom believes in traditional gender roles.

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  2. Wouldn't it be great if a gender-neutral pronoun for "he" or "she" existed in English?

    ruРазве было бы не здорово, если бы гендерно-нейтральные местоимения для "он" или "она" существовали в английском языке?

    deWäre es nicht wundervoll, wenn es im Englischen ein geschlechtsneutrales Pronomen statt „he“ oder „she“ geben würde?

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  3. In that language, adjectives and nouns are inflected for gender.

    У тій мові прикметники і іменники змінюються за родами.

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  4. In many languages, it is difficult to speak or write without revealing one's gender.

    У багатьох мовах складно говорити або писати, не виказуючи своєї статі.

    ruВо многих языках сложно говорить или писать без указания пола.

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  5. In English, unlike in many other languages, one can write entire books without giving away one's gender.

    Англійською, на відміну від інших мов, можна писати цілі книжки, не викриваючи стать героїв.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
biological sex:
identification as a man, a woman, or something else:
grammar: division of nouns and pronouns:
Русский
By meaning 3
biological sex:
identification as a man, a woman, or something else:
grammar: division of nouns and pronouns:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
division, class, kind:
identification as a man, a woman, or something else:
grammar: division of nouns and pronouns:

Origin

From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“

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”).

Borrowed from Indonesian gender.

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Forms

plural: genders

Synonyms

7 synonyms
class or kind:genreB2
Close in meaning
  • 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:grammatical gender
  • the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles:sexsexuality

Word family

161 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gender — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto