Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - gender
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Gender
gender
~ n 1 formal the fact of being male or female (Discrimination on grounds of race or gender is forbidden.) 2 a) the system in some languages of marking words such as nouns, adjectives, and pronouns as being masculine (4), feminine (2), or neuter1 (2) b) a group such as feminine (2) into which words are divided in this system
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(genders) 1. A person’s gender is the fact that they are male or female. Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender. ...groups that are traditionally discriminated against on grounds of gender, colour, race, or age. = sex N-VAR 2. You can refer to all male people or all female people as a particular gender. While her observations may be true about some men, they could hardly apply to the entire gender. ...the different abilities and skills of the two genders. = sex N-COUNT 3. In grammar, the gender of a noun, pronoun, or adjective is whether it is masculine, feminine, or neuter. A word’s gender can affect its form and behaviour. In English, only personal pronouns such as ‘she’, reflexive pronouns such as ‘itself’, and possessive determiners such as ‘his’ have gender. In both Welsh and Irish the word for ‘moon’ is of feminine gender. N-VAR ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English gendre, from Anglo-French genre, gendre, from Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind, ~ — more at kin Date: 14th century 1. a. a subclass within a grammatical class (as noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb) of a language that is partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics (as shape, social rank, manner of existence, or sex) and that determines agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms b. membership of a word or a grammatical form in such a subclass c. an inflectional form showing membership in such a subclass 2. a. sex the feminine ~ b. the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex II. verb (~ed; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English gendren, from Anglo-French gendrer, from Latin generare — more at generate Date: 14th century en~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a the grammatical classification of nouns and related words, roughly corresponding to the two sexes and sexlessness. b each of the classes of nouns (see MASCULINE, FEMININE, NEUTER, COMMON adj. 6). 2 (of nouns and related words) the property of belonging to such a class. 3 colloq. a person's sex. Etymology: ME f. OF gendre ult. f. L GENUS ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. грам. род masculine gender —- мужской род natural gender —- естественный род; род, соответствующий полу what is the gender of this noun? —- какого рода это существительное? 2. пол 3. уст. сорт, вид 4. уст. порождать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- c.1350, from O.Fr. genre, from stem of L. genus (gen. generis) "kind, sort, gender," used to translate from Gk. Aristotle's grammatical term genos. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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