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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gender \Gen"der\, n. [OF. genre, gendre (with excrescent d.), F. genre, fr L. genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind gender, fr the root of genere, gignere to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to E. kin. See {Kin}, and cf {Generate}, {Genre}, {Gentle}, {Genus}.] 1. Kind sort. [Obs.] ``One gender of herbs.'' --Shak. 2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.] 3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. --R. Morris. Note: Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gender \Gen"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gendered}; p. pr & vb n. {Gendering}.] [OF. gendrer, fr L. generare. See {Gender}, n.] To beget; to engender. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gender \Gen"der\, v. i. To copulate; to breed. [R.] --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gender n 1: 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 animateness [syn: {grammatical gender}] 2: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus" [syn: {sex}, {sexuality}]
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