gender

1. 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

   Synonymsgrammatical gender

   Broadergrammatical category

   Narrowerfemininemasculineneuter
2. 2.

   the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

   “she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus”

   Synonymssexsexuality

   Broaderphysiological property

   Narrowermalenessandrogynyfemaleness

Other forms of gender

plural

genders·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gender

What does gender mean?

gender means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gender?

gender has 2 syllables: gen-der. The stress falls on "gen". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɛndɚ/.

What is another word for gender?

Close synonyms include grammatical gender, sex, sexuality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gender a common word?

gender is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gender?

2 words rhyme with gender. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.