gender
Sex a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.
Other meanings
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.
“Gender roles are indistinct among the young if the two sexes play together frequently.”
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.
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Word history
From Latin "genus" (genere).
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This definition is adapted from “gender” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.