gender

Nouns

  • (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 grammatical gender,
  • (n) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
    • she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus
    sexuality, sex,

Synonyms

grammatical gender sexuality sex

Words of close approximity

gender agreement gender identity gender role