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genderIn many other languages, especially the Romance languages (such as French, Spanish, and Italian), a large number of nouns are coded as being either feminine or masculine. This used to be the case in Old English as well, but in modern English only certain nouns that describe a person who performs an action are inflected for gender. This is usually achieved by changing the end of the word to a feminine suffix, such as “-ess,” “-ine,” and “-trix.” Words are less commonly changed to specifically reflect masculine gender, but the few that do use the suffixes “-er” or “-or.”Continue reading...gen·der G0075900 (jĕn′dər)n.1. Grammar a. A grammatical category, often designated as male, female, or neuter, used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms.b. The fact of being classified as belonging to such a category: agreement in gender, number, and case.2. a. Either of the two divisions, designated female and male, by which most organisms are classified on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions; sex.b. One's identity as female or male or as neither entirely female nor entirely male.c. Females or males considered as a group: Students lined up with the genders in different lines.tr.v. gen·dered, gen·der·ing, gen·ders Archaic To engender.
[Middle English gendre, from Old French, kind, gender, from Latin genus, gener-; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]
gen′der·less adj.Usage Note: Some people maintain that the word sex should be reserved for reference to the biological aspects of being male or female or to sexual activity, and that the word gender should be used only to refer to sociocultural roles. Accordingly, one would say The effectiveness of the treatment appears to depend on the sex of the patient and In society, gender roles are clearly defined. In some situations this distinction avoids ambiguity, as in gender research, which is clear in a way that sex research is not. The distinction can be problematic, however. Linguistically, there isn't any real difference between gender bias and sex bias, and it may seem contrived to insist that sex is incorrect in this instance.gender (ˈdʒɛndə) n1. (Grammar) a set of two or more grammatical categories into which the nouns of certain languages are divided, sometimes but not necessarily corresponding to the sex of the referent when animate. See also natural gender2. (Grammar) any of the categories, such as masculine, feminine, neuter, or common, within such a set3. informal the state of being male, female, or neuter4. informal all the members of one sex: the female gender. [C14: from Old French gendre, from Latin genus kind] ˈgenderless adjgen•der1 (ˈdʒɛn dər)
n. 1. a. a set of grammatical categories applied to nouns, shown by the form of the noun itself or the choice of words that modify, replace, or refer to it, often correlated in part with sex or animateness, as in the choice of he to replace the man,she to replace the woman, or it to replace the table, but sometimes based on arbitrary assignment without regard to the referent of the noun, as in French le livre (masculine) “the book” or German das Mädchen (neuter) “the girl.” b. one of the categories in such a set, as masculine, feminine, neuter, or common. c. membership of a word or grammatical form in such a category. 2. a. sex: the feminine gender. b. the societal or behavioral aspects of sexual identity: gender studies. 3. Archaic. kind, sort, or class. [1300–50; < Middle French gen(d)re < Latin gener-, s. of genus kind, sort; compare genus] gen′der•less, adj. usage.: The use of gender in the sense “sex” (The author's gender should be irrelevant.) is over 600 years old. Although some people feel that gender should be reserved for grammatical category only, the “sex” sense of gender is now extremely common; sex itself is becoming increasingly rare except when referring to copulation. gen•der2 (ˈdʒɛn dər)
v.t., v.i. 1. Archaic. to engender. 2. Obs. to breed. [1300–50; Middle English < Middle French gendrer < Latin generāre to beget; see generate] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | gender - 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 animatenessgrammatical gendergrammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical propertiesfeminine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as femalemasculine - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as maleneuter - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) | | 2. | gender - the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"sexuality, sexphysiological property - a property having to do with the functioning of the bodymaleness, masculinity - the properties characteristic of the male sexandrogyny, bisexuality, hermaphroditism - showing characteristics of both sexesfemaleness, feminineness - the properties characteristic of the female sex |
gendernoun sex Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.Translationsgender (ˈdʒendə) noun any of a number of classes into which nouns and pronouns can be divided (eg masculine, feminine, neuter). (語法)性 （语法）性 gender
gender bender1. One who dresses and/or behaves in a manner or style associated with another gender. Tom works as an accountant during the week, but he has a performance routine as a gender bender on the weekend.2. One who challenges, denies, or explores the borders or limitations of gender identity by various means. Some of the leading academic gender benders are gathering this week for a summit on transgender rights.3. In electronics, an adapter that has either two male or two female connectors and is used to change the gender of a plug. If that's a male connector, we'll need to get a gender bender to finish this job.See also: bender, gendergender bending1. adjective Causing a change in the sex assignment of a person or animal. This meaning can be considered imprecise especially in technical use due to conflating gender and sex. Often hyphenated. Scientists are developing a gender-bending chemical to induce artificial changes in the sex of mosquitoes.2. adjective Assuming the roles, appearance, or manner associated with another gender. Often hyphenated. This novel features a gender-bending protagonist who, at various stages in the story, moves between gender identities.3. noun The discourse or practice of challenging, denying, or exploring the borders or limitations of gender identity by various means. Some of the leading academics in gender bending are gathering this week for a summit on transgender rights.See also: bend, genderplay the gender cardTo introduce the issue of gender discrimination, especially against the gender one identifies as, in order to gain an advantage in or dismiss or discredit an argument. There you go playing the gender card again. I don't care who you are—I still think it's a bad policy! I hate it when casual misogynists try to brush off legitimate criticism by claiming that you're just "playing the gender card."See also: card, gender, playgender gapA phrase that can be applied to any socioeconomic difference that exists between men and women. I really hope Maureen's big raise helps to lessen the gender gap in wages at this company.See also: gap, gendergender-neutral1. Not giving an indication of someone or something's gender. Our campus is trying to settle on a gender-neutral term to use for students who don't identify as male or female.2. Applicable to any gender. My daughters have so many dolls—I wish they had more gender-neutral toys to play with.genderqueerDescribing one who does not consider gender as a binary of two exclusive options (male and female) and who identifies as neither male nor female, or as a combination of genders. I want to talk to a genderqueer person to try to better understand their views on gender. My friend Sal doesn't identify as exclusively female—they consider themself genderqueer.cisgender(Describing) one who identifies as the gender that corresponds to their sex at birth; (describing) one who is not transgender. If you were born male and identify as man, then you're cisgender. Just because someone is cisgender doesn't mean they can't support trans rights.transgender(Describing) one whose gender identity does not correspond to their sex at birth. This can but does not necessarily include those who have undergone medical intervention. I knew I was transgender as a child—I was born male but that never felt like who I truly was. Actor Laverne Cox is a prominent transgender person.gender binaryThe idea that there are only two distinct genders (male and female). Many people don't believe in the gender binary because they don't identify as solely male or female.See also: binary, gendergender fluidNot strictly identifying as one distinct gender, perhaps identifying as a different gender at different times, or identifying as more than one gender at once. My sex is male, but I'm gender fluid, and I feel more feminine than masculine some days.See also: fluid, gendergender fluidityThe state of not strictly identifying as one distinct gender, perhaps identifying as a different gender at different times, or identifying as more than one gender at once. Gender fluidity means that some people's gender identity may fluctuate.See also: gendergender gapA broad difference between men and women, as in There is still an enormous gender gap in the wages of unskilled labor. This expression at first referred to the difference between men and women in voting preferences. It has since been extended to other areas. [1970s] See also: gap, gendergender-bender1. n. a device that changes electrical plugs or sockets to the opposite gender—male to female, female to male. You need what’s called a gender-bender to match those plugs. 2. mod. having to do with something that obscures male/female distinctions. Those gender-bender hairstyles can be confusing. gender
genderIn many other languages, especially the Romance languages (such as French, Spanish, and Italian), a large number of nouns are coded as being either feminine or masculine. This used to be the case in Old English as well, but in modern English only certain nouns that describe a person who performs an action are inflected for gender. This is usually achieved by changing the end of the word to a feminine suffix, such as “-ess,” “-ine,” and “-trix.” Words are less commonly changed to specifically reflect masculine gender, but the few that do use the suffixes “-er” or “-or.”Continue reading...gender [Lat. genus=kind], in grammar, subclassification of nouns or nounlike words in which the members of the subclass have characteristic features of agreement with other words. The term gender is not usually considered to include the classification of numbernumber,
entity describing the magnitude or position of a mathematical object or extensions of these concepts. The Natural Numbers
Cardinal numbers describe the size of a collection of objects; two such collections have the same (cardinal) number of objects if their
..... Click the link for more information. . In French, for example, there are two genders, feminine and masculine, marked by the form of the articles la and le [both: the]. Most French nouns referring to males are masculine (le garcon [the boy]), and most referring to females are feminine (la fille [the girl]), thus conforming to natural gender. Other words are placed in either gender, e.g., le jardin [the garden] and la table [the table], being instances of grammatical gender. In German, Russian, and Latin there are three genders, called masculine, feminine, and neuter. Scandinavian and Dutch languages have in addition to these three a "common" gender, which combines, and often distinguishes between, masculine and feminine. A genderlike distinction between animate and inanimate is widespread, e.g., in Algonquian languages of North America and the Andamanese of the Bay of Bengal. Some Bantu languages have 20 genderlike noun classes. English nouns may be divided into gender classes according to the personal pronouns they take. Nouns referring to males take he and nouns referring to females take she. Most English nouns referring to objects that cannot be classified by sex take the pronoun it, although exceptions exist; ships, for example, are sometimes referred to as she. The grammatical device of concord, or agreement, is bound up with gender distinctions. By it one word bears a formal signal to show its relationship to the word it accompanies or modifies; thus, in la viande, the form of la shows that it is related to a word of the feminine gender class, and it may be said to agree with, or be in concord with, viande. While in most Indo-European languages gender involves nouns, adjectives, and pronouns, in Semitic langauges and some Slavic languages even verbal forms must agree with the gender of their subjects. Although gender is present in many languages, it is far from universal. In English a few words retain gender inflection (e.g., actress, executrix), but since the 12th to 15th cent. English has dropped most of the gender distinctions characteristic of its ancestor languages.gender - (common usage) the distinction between males and females according to anatomical sex.
- (sociological usage) a social division frequently based on, but not necessarily coincidental with, anatomical sex. Thus, sociological usage of the term gender can be at odds with everyday usage.
Sociologists and social psychologists argue that while sex refers to the biological characteristics by which human beings are categorized as ‘male’, ‘female’, or in rare instances ‘hermaphrodite’ (in which the biological characteristics of both sexes are actually or apparently combined), gender refers to the social and social-psychological attributes by which human beings are categorized as ‘masculine’, ‘feminine’ or ‘androgynous’ (in which the social-psychological characteristics of both genders are intentionally or unintentionally combined). Many sociologists stress that within sociological discourse gender should be used when referring to the socially-created division of society into those who are masculine and those who are feminine. Whereas ‘male’ and ‘female’ are terms reserved for biological differences between men and women and boys and girls, ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ are reserved for culturally-imposed behavioural and temperamental traits deemed socially appropriate to the sexes. These traits are learnt via a complex and continuing process of SOCIALIZATION. Anthropologists (e.g. Margaret MEAD) and psychologists, as well as sociologists, have stressed that gender is not biologically determined but socially and culturally defined. Gender is seen as culturally and historically relative, i.e. the meaning, interpretation and expression of gender varies both within and between cultures, and is subject to historical modification. Social factors such as class, age, race and ethnicity also shape the specific meaning, expression and experience of gender, underlining the fact that gender cannot be equated in any simplistic way with sex or SEXUALITY. see FEMINIST THEORY. gender[′jen·dər] (electricity) The classification of a connector as female or male. gender
gender [jen´der] sex (def. 1); see also identity" >gender identity and role" >gender role.gender identity disorder a disturbance of gender identification in which the affected person has an overwhelming desire to change their anatomic sex or insists that they are of the opposite sex, with persistent discomfort about their assigned sex or about filling its usual gender role; the disorder may become apparent in childhood or not appear until adolescence or adulthood. Individuals may attempt to live as members of the opposite sex and may seek hormonal and surgical treatment to bring their anatomy into conformity with their belief (see transsexualism). It is not the same as transvestism.gen·der (jen'dĕr), Category to which an individual is assigned by self or others, on the basis of sex. Compare: sex, gender role. gender (jĕn′dər)n.1. Grammar a. A grammatical category, often designated as male, female, or neuter, used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms.b. The fact of being classified as belonging to such a category: agreement in gender, number, and case.2. a. Either of the two divisions, designated female and male, by which most organisms are classified on the basis of their reproductive organs and functions; sex.b. One's identity as female or male or as neither entirely female nor entirely male.c. Females or males considered as a group: Students lined up with the genders in different lines.tr.v. gen·dered, gen·dering, gen·ders Archaic To engender.
gen′der·less adj.gender The sex with which a person identifies him- or herself.gender Sex; one's personal, social, and legal status as ♂ or ♀, based on body and behavior, not on genital and/or erotic criteria. See Gender-identity/role. gen·der (jen'dĕr) Category to which a person is assigned by self or others, on the basis of sex.
Compare: sex, gender role[fr. L. genus, kind]gender A classification of organisms based on their sex. From the Latin genus , a kind.Patient discussion about genderQ. In which month of pregnancy it's possible to determine gender of the fetus? A. following marin's question - is there a difference when it comes to twins? Q. Which gender is on the high risk of fibromyalgia and what may be the cause? A. It’s generally found with women. Any women having family history of fibromyalgia is more likely to suffer from fibromyalgia. Causes are unknown. Factors known to cause are that some people with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and spinal arthritis may be more likely to have fibromyalgia, too. Researchers suspect that some genes may stimulate pain in patients with fibromyalgia though there is no proof to that effect. More discussions about genderGender
Related to Gender: Gender rolesGENDER. That which designates the sexes.
2. As a general rule, when the masculine is used it includes the feminine, as, man (q. v.) sometimes includes women. This is the general rule, unless a contrary intention appears. But in penal statutes, which must be construed strictly, when the masculine is used and not the feminine, the latter is not in general included. 3 C. & P. 225. An instance to the contrary, however, may be found in the construction, 25 Ed. III, st. 5, c. 2, Sec. 1, which declares it to be high treason, "When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king," &c. These words, "our lord the king," have been construed to include a queen regnant. 2 Inst. 7, 8, 9; H. P. C. 12; 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 17; Bac. Ab. Treason, D.
3. Pothier says that the masculine often includes the feminine, but the feminine never includes the masculine; that according to this rule if a man were to bequeath to another all his horses, his mares would pass by the legacy; but if he were to give all his mares, the horses would not be included. Poth. Introd. au titre 16, des Testaments et Donations Testamentaires, n. 170; 3 Brev. R. 9. In the Louisiana code in the French language, it is provided that the word fils, sons, comprehends filles, daughters. Art. 3522, n. 1. Vide Ayl. Pand. 57; 4 Car. & Payne, 216; S. C. 19 Engl. Com. Law R. 351; Barr. on the Stat. 216, note; Feme; Feme covert; Feminine; Male; Man; Sex; Women; Worthiest of blood. AcronymsSeeGENgender
Related to gender: Gender rolesSynonyms for gendernoun sexSynonymsSynonyms for gendernoun a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectivesSynonymsRelated Words- grammatical category
- syntactic category
- feminine
- masculine
- neuter
noun the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive rolesSynonymsRelated Words- physiological property
- maleness
- masculinity
- androgyny
- bisexuality
- hermaphroditism
- femaleness
- feminineness
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