gender
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(noun) 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 |
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Synonyms: grammatical gender |
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Related Words: feminine, grammatical category, masculine, neuter, syntactic category |
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(noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus" |
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Synonyms: sex, sexuality |
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Related Words: androgyny, bisexuality, femaleness, feminineness, hermaphroditism, maleness, masculinity, physiological property |
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