Gender
['dʒendə] or ['dʒɛndɚ]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
Typist: Sanford--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Kind; sort.
(n.) Sex, male or female.
(n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
(n.) To beget; to engender.
(v. i.) To copulate; to breed.
Edited by Lizzie
Definition
n. kind esp. with regard to sex: (gram.) the distinction of nouns according to sex.
v.t. to beget.—v.i. (B.) to copulate.
Typed by Alice
Examples
- Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive goodness of the feminine gender. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now dogs are not divided into hes and shes--we do not take the masculine gender out to hunt and leave the females at home to look after their puppies. Plato. The Republic.
- No,' said Mr Fledgeby, 'Gender--is ever what a man is bound to listen to, and I wish it rested with myself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Typed by Carla