## Meanings
1. The state of being male, female, or another identity, especially regarding social and cultural roles.
2. The grouping of nouns and pronouns into classes such as masculine, feminine, or neuter in some languages.
3. To treat or refer to someone as having a particular gender.

## Examples
- The survey collected data on age, gender, and occupation.
- In French, every noun has a gender, either masculine or feminine.
- His colleagues continued to gender him as female despite his protests.

## Synonyms
- gendersex
- voice

## Derived Forms
- agender
- all-gender
- ambigender
- anti-gender
- antigender
- antigenderism
- antigenderist
- autigender
- bigender
- biogender
- catgender
- cis-gender

## Related Forms
- androgyne
- bigender
- common
- crossdresser
- degender
- female
- feminine
- hermaphrodite
- hermaphroditic
- hijra
- kathoey
- male

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *ǵenh₁-
- Root: gendre
- Root: genus

## Etymology
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.

## AI Etymology
Gender comes from Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. In current use, the main senses are “The state of being male, female, or another identity, especially regarding social and cultural roles” and “The grouping of nouns and pronouns into classes such as masculine, feminine, or neuter in some languages”.

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