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Word: Gender
Speech Type: Noun
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)
ˈdʒɛndə
the male sex or the female sex, especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones, or one of a range of other identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female
Short Definition:either of two sexes
Examples:- the singer has opted to keep the names and genders of her twins private
- our findings show that all genders are affected by this threat
- everyone always asks which gender I identify as
(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 distinctions of sex.
Short Definition:class of nouns and pronouns
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