grammatical 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

   Synonymsgender

   Broadergrammatical category

   Narrowerfemininemasculineneuter

Questions about grammatical gender

What does grammatical gender mean?

grammatical 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".

What is another word for grammatical gender?

Close synonyms include gender. 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 grammatical gender a common word?

grammatical gender is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.