| gender | |
| 1. n. Grammatical gender. | |
| 2. n. (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neu | |
| 3. n. (grammar) Any division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine / feminine / neuter, or animate / inanimate. | |
| 4. n. (grammar) (synonym of voice, , particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs) | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) Class; kind. | |
| 6. n. (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). | |
| the gene is activated in both genders | |
| The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors. | |
| 7. n. (sociology) Identification as a man, a woman or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on th | |
| 8. n. (hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitti | |
| 9. v. (sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender. | |
| 10. v. (sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender. | |
| 11. v. (archaic) To engender. | |
| 12. v. (archaic, or obsolete) To breed. | |
