Gender (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

Admin
noun
  1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior: the feminine gender.
  2. a similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification.
  3. the concept or system of categories such as male and female: Gender is a factor in pay rates across industries.More and more people have a nonbinary understanding of gender.
  4. Grammar.
    • (in many languages) a set of classes that together include all nouns, membership in a particular class being shown by the form of the noun itself or by the form or choice of words that modify, replace, or otherwise refer to the noun, as, in English, the choice ofhe to replace the man, of she to replace the woman, of it to replace the table, of it or she to replace the ship. The number of genders in different languages varies from 2 to more than 20; often the classification correlates in part with sex or animateness. The most familiar sets of genders are of three classes (as masculine, feminine, and neuter in Latin and German) or of two (as common and neuter in Dutch, or masculine and feminine in French and Spanish).
    • one class of such a set.
    • such classes or sets collectively or in general.
    • membership of a word or grammatical form, or an inflectional form showing membership, in such a class.
  5. kind, sort, or class.
verb (used with object)
  1. to attribute gender to, or to classify by gender: Gendering soaps seems a bit much—can't men and women use the same products?Usually when I wear my hair down people gender me as female.
verb (used with or without object)
  1. to engender.
  2. to breed.
noun
  1. 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
  2. any of the categories, such as masculine, feminine, neuter, or common, within such a set
  3. the state of being male, female, or neuter
  4. all the members of one sex
Gender (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

More Definitions