Definition of gender

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Gender (n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex..

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He :: He (obj.) The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated..
Genderless :: Genderless (a.) Having no gender.
Engender :: Engender (v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife..
Gender :: Gender (v. i.) To copulate; to breed.
Gender :: Gender (n.) To beget; to engender.
Polyptoton :: Polyptoton (n.) A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell..
Neuter :: Neuter (n.) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
Engender :: Engender (v. t.) To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
Procreate :: Procreate (v. t.) To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.
Ingenerable :: Ingenerable (a.) Incapble of being engendered or produced; original.
Plant :: Plant (n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
Gendering :: Gendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gende.
Epicene :: Epicene (a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites..
Which :: Which (pron.) A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons..
Engendering :: Engendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engende.
Neuter :: Neuter (a.) Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender..
Gendered :: Gendered (imp. & p. p.) of Gende.
Engendered :: Engendered (imp. & p. p.) of Engende.
Sylleptic :: Syllepsis (n.) The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati..
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease..
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