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gender Definition


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gender
noun
    1. The condition of being male or female; one's sex.
    2a. grammar.
      In many languages: a system of dividing nouns and pronouns into different classes, often, but not necessarily, related to the sex of the persons and things denoted;
    2b. grammar.
      Any of these classes, usually two or three in European languages (see common gender, feminine, masculine and neuter).
Etymology: 14c: from Latin genus, generis kind or sort.



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