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Meaning of 'gender' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Gender [ n.]
- Kind; sort.
- Sex, male or female.
- A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
- To beget; to engender.
2 . Gender [ v. i.]
- To copulate; to breed.

Meaning of 'gender' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . gender [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
Example in sentence:
  • she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus

Nearby Words:

gena genappe gendarme gendarmery gendarmes gendered gendering genderless geneagenesis genealogic

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