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Noun

the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
- she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus

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

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Synonyms:
sex sexuality grammatical gender

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Words pronounced/spelled similarly to "gender":
gander gender genitor gentry go under
Words contain "gender":
engender gender gender agreement gender identity gender role grammatical gender transgender transgendered
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gender role masculine neuter feminine transsexualism enallage sexual inversion gender agreement transgendered transgender more...

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