GENDER as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
   Synonym(s)
   • sex (what does sex mean?)
   • sexuality (what does sexuality mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • she didn”t want to know the sex of the foetus
   Hypernyms(s) gender is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • physiological property (what does physiological property mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • maleness (what does maleness mean?)
   • masculinity (what does masculinity mean?)
   • androgyny (what does androgyny mean?)
   • hermaphroditism (what does hermaphroditism mean?)
   • bisexuality (what does bisexuality mean?)
   • femaleness (what does femaleness mean?)
   • feminineness (what does feminineness mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • male (what does male mean?)
   • female (what does female mean?)
   • androgynous (what does androgynous mean?)
   • sexual (what does sexual mean?)
   • asexual (what does asexual mean?)
   • nonsexual (what does nonsexual mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • sex (what does sex mean?)
2. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • grammatical gender (what does grammatical gender mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) gender is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • grammatical category (what does grammatical category mean?)
   • syntactic category (what does syntactic category mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • feminine (what does feminine mean?)
   • masculine (what does masculine mean?)
   • neuter (what does neuter mean?)