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gender [-]
noun
1) Grammar (in languages such as Latin, French, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections which they have and which they require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex
■ [mass noun] the property (in nouns and related words) of belonging to such a class
"determiners and adjectives usually agree with the noun in gender and number"
2) [mass noun] the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones)
"traditional concepts of gender"
■ [count noun] the members of one or other sex
"differences between the genders are encouraged from an early age"
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Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French gendre (modern genre), based on Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation’. The earliest meanings were ‘kind, sort, genus’ and ‘type or class of noun, etc.’ (which was also a sense of Latin genus)
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Usage
The word gender has been used since the 14th century primarily as a grammatical term, referring to the classes of noun in Latin, Greek, German, and other languages designated as masculine, feminine, or neuter. It has also been used since the 14th century in the sense ‘the state of being male or female’, but this did not become a common standard use until the mid 20th century. Although the words gender and sex both have the sense ‘the state of being male or female’, they are typically used in slightly different ways: sex tends