natural gender
Linguistics
noun
The gender corresponding to the sex of a noun's referent, especially as opposed to the noun's grammatical gender; the grammatical classification of words on the basis of the sex (or sexlessness) of their referents.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in William Whitney (1827–1894).
- Yekaterinburg
- Yekaterinodar
- Yekaterinoslav
- Yelizavetpol
- yell
- yellow
- yellow archangel
- yellowback
- yellow-bellied
- yellow-bellied sapsucker
- yellow-belly
- yellow bile
- yellowbill
- yellow-billed
- Yellow Book
- yellow brain fungus
- yellow bunting
- yellowcake
- yellow card
- yellow dog
- yellow dog contract
- yellow earth
- yellow fever
- yellow fever virus
- yellowfin