gender

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The state of being male, female, or another identity, especially regarding social and cultural roles.

   The survey collected data on age, gender, and occupation.

2. 2
   noun

   The grouping of nouns and pronouns into classes such as masculine, feminine, or neuter in some languages.

   In French, every noun has a gender, either masculine or feminine.

3. 3
   verb

   To treat or refer to someone as having a particular gender.

   His colleagues continued to gender him as female despite his protests.

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.

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