English Explanatory Dictionary

gender

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Class; kind.
  2. Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
  3. Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
  4. A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
  5. Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).
  6. The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
verb
  1. To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
  2. To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
adj
  1. Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
verb
  1. To engender.
  2. To breed.
noun
  1. An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.

Pronunciation

/ˈd͡ʒɛndə/ /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gender.wav En-us-gender.oga /ɡənˈdɛː(r)/

Word forms

gender genders g. gendering gendered more gender most gender gendèr

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

biological sex gendersex voice genre

Related words

female male hermaphroditic man woman hermaphrodite bigender non-binary transgender androgyne crossdresser hijra kathoey transsexual two-spirit common feminine masculine neuter genderqueer misgender ungender degender regender

Derived words

agender all-gender ambigender anti-gender antigender antigenderism antigenderist autigender bigender biogender catgender cisgender cis-gender cogender common gender crossgender demigender fourth gender genderable gender-affected gender affirmation surgery gender-affirming gender-affirming surgery genderal gender asterisk gender baiting gender-baiting gender-balanced genderbend gender-bender gender bender genderbending gender binary gender-binary gender-blind gender blind genderbread person gender budgeting gender card gender changer gendercide gender cleavage gender confirmation surgery gender continuum gender-critical feminism gender-critical feminist gender critical gender-critical gender diverse gender dysphoria gender-dysphoric gendered gender envy genderer gender euphoria gender-expansive gender expression genderfae gender-flip genderfluid
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