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gender

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Word definitions for gender in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gender \Gen"der\ (j[e^]n"d[~e]r), n. [OF. genre, gendre (with excrescent d.), F.genre, fr. L. genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind, gender, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to E. kin. See Kin , and cf. Generate ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 [syn: grammatical gender ...

Usage examples of gender.

If men and women are to be truly equal, should masculinity and femininity merge into one androgynous, indivisible form of gender, or should we seek to remove the sexual connotation from gender altogether?

The sidewalk was filled with anorectic individuals of ambiguous gender, hugging guitar cases as if they were life preservers, dragging deeply on cigarettes and regarding the passing traffic with spaced-out apprehension.

What a berdache is, basically, is someone who adopts a gender other than their biological one.

I heard the girl laughing, and going up to the bed and passing my hand over it I came across some plain tokens of the masculine gender.

The chiastic structure of the sequences and genders amused me, but after a moment another thought occurred to me, clouding my spirits, and I brought it up to her only half in jest.

Gender dysphoria can occur in both heterosexuals and homosexuals, thus indicating that sexual preference is not an overriding factor in the condition.

Council president a fearless little ectotherm of no certain gender or political persuasion.

As often happened in these real estate transactions, the couples were forming alliances along gender lines, leaving me stranded gawkily in the middle.

Flame, ever protective of Wizards no matter their gender or specialty, showed the weary Geomancer to a comfortable guest room above stairs.

Earth genders has more to do with relative power than any other consideration.

If you wish to imply that you are guilty of it, let me assure you that so is he, so am I, so is everyone who has a relation here of the other gender.

Gender was one of the many things about themselves that the Rethe refused to discuss.

One study asked both sexes to describe the experience of orgasm and subsequently removed specific references to body parts and gender.

Alicia is thinking quite hard about gender, at least in her own rather spacey way.

Kabbalah teaches that a distinction does exist between male and female energies, but that the Creator transcends these gender categories.