gender
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: genders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: g.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: genders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gendering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gendered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gendered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: g.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: more gender
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gender
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: g.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Class; kind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…]
gloss: Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
pos: noun
tags: countable
proscribed
sometimes
uncountable
examples: the gene is activated in both genders
The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.
To say truth, I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex; and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them […] .
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse […] that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
Gender does not necessarily have primacy in this respect. Economic class and ethnic differentiation can also be important relational hierarchies, […].
Although asari have one gender, they are not asexual. An asari provides two copies of her own genes to her offspring. The second set is altered in a unique process called melding.
During melding, an asari consciously attunes her nervous system to her partner's, sending and receiving electrical impulses directly through the skin. The partner can be another asari, or an alien of either gender. Effectively, the asari and her partner briefly become one unified nervous system.
gloss: 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.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Gender roles are indistinct among the young if the two sexes play together frequently.
I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person. To me for human beings to express themselves along gender lines is a wonderful and uniquely human phenomena.
Gender is the sociocultural designation of biobehavioral and psychosocial qualities of the sexes; for example, woman (female), man (male), other(s) (e.g., berdaches²). Notions of gender are culturally specific and depend on the ways in which cultures define and differentiate human (and other) potentials and possibilities. While many people in Western society may think first of heterosexual women and men when the word "gender" is mentioned, there are more gender possibilities than just those two.
From simply "adding women" into the analysis of work and seeing "gender" as another word for "sex," we have moved to the understanding that gender is a social process and a social construction of sexual differences. It is as much an independent variable as a dependent variable, shaped by social and historical processes. Beyond bringing women back into analyses of the workplace and the labor process, we now have to analyze how work is gendered and gendering: gender as a means of control and an organizing principle for class relations at the point of production, and workplace as a site for gender construction, formation, and reproduction. In the latest development, seeing gender as a power process also directs our attention toward the politics of identity, or the formation and claiming of collective subjectivities.
One wife I met at a conference was in a hurry for her husband to have the genital surgery because she worried about his gender and genitals not matching if he were in a car accident, […]
Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man, announced in an April 2008 issue of the gay and lesbian news magazine, The Advocate, that he was pregnant. […] Moreover, he saw no conflict between his gender and his pregnancy.
Intersex people too challenge the idea that physical sex, not merely gender, is binary – a person must be definitively either one sex or the other.
The State Department and current Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expressly directed under the injunction to “to process and issue passports [...] consistent with the State Department’s policy as of January 19, 2025,” and to allow passport applicants to self-declare their gender even if that information is “different from the sex assigned to those individuals under the [Trump] Passport Policy.”
In President Trump’s America, there may be only two genders, but our military adventures can identify however they please.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity.
In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate gender […]
Pronouns, for instance, are structures that organise information about continuous referents. This information is typically categorised in Romani according to Person, Number, Gender, Animacy, Case, and Discreteness.
The common gender might well reflect an IE animate gender.
gloss: Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 143. […] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs: Gender or Sort, Person, Number, Time, Mode, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. [...]
1st.--Of the Gender.
144. Gender means the same as sort or kind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passive verbs, Neuter verbs, and Impersonal verbs.
Many of the words quoted are purely reflexive, others passive or deponent. Such words as óttask, œðrask, dásk, iðrask, reiðask are deponent, though they originally may have been reflexive, but the active gender is here quite obsolete.
The general distinction is between three 'genders' out of the five genders of the Latin tradition: active gender, passive gender, neuter gender.
gloss: The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Connectors are identified by gender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, its gender is male.
gloss: To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
pos: verb
examples: In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2).
gloss: To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
pos: verb
examples: At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly.
Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses.
Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes.
“Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices,” Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said in a statement. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether A.I. technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.”
gloss: Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
pos: adj
examples: This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.
miles [Morales] is so gender and the embodiment of a little guy I just want to give him a hug
Seth Rogan eating the whole chicken drumstick off the bone and then asking how he’s still single is gender af
ombras "whats good?" and "peace 😈" voicelines are so gender and i love her
you draw her so gender, thank you i'm die forever
Whenever I work triceps at the gym I feel most Gender (tm).
Is there anything surprising that makes you feel gender/that you are envious of? ¶ oooh. i recently discovered the big gender mood of shirts cropped to precisely the right length, and it is also surprisingly gender when my friends call me “doc” instead of my very binarily gendered name
Synonyms: biological sex
gendersex
voice
Related words: female
male
hermaphroditic
man
woman
hermaphrodite
bigender
non-binary
transgender
androgyne
crossdresser
hijra
kathoey
transsexual
two-spirit
common
feminine
masculine
neuter
misgender
ungender
degender
regender
Derived words: agender
all-gender
ambigender
anti-gender
antigender
antigenderism
antigenderist
autigender
bigender
biogender
catgender
cisgender
cis-gender
cogender
common gender
crossgender
demigender
fourth gender
genderable
gender-affected
gender affirmation surgery
gender-affirming
gender-affirming surgery
genderal
gender asterisk
gender baiting
gender-baiting
gender-balanced
genderbend
gender-bender
gender bender
genderbending
gender binary
gender-binary
gender-blind
gender blind
genderbread person
gender budgeting
gender card
gender changer
gendercide
gender cleavage
gender confirmation surgery
gender continuum
gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminist
gender critical
gender-critical
gender diverse
gender dysphoria
gender-dysphoric
gendered
gender envy
genderer
gender euphoria
gender-expansive
gender expression
genderfae
gender-flip
genderfluid
gender-fluid
gender fluidity
genderflux
gender-free
genderfuck
gender gap
gender hoard
genderic
gender identity
gender identity disorder
GID
gender identity syndrome
gender ideology
gender-inclusive
gender inclusivity
gender incongruence
genderisation
genderism
genderist
genderization
genderize
genderland
genderlect
genderless
genderlike
genderly
gender mainstreaming
gender mender
gender minority
gender neutral
gender-neutral
gender neutrality
gender-neutrality
gender-neutralize
gender-neutrally
gender nonconforming
gender-nonconforming
gender non-conforming
gender nonconformity
genderology
gender panembung
genderphobia
genderplay
gender presentation
genderpunk
genderquake
genderqueer
GQ
gender realignment surgery
gender reallocation surgery
gender reassignment
gender reassignment surgery
gender recognition
gender recognition certificate
gender reveal
gender role
gender-role
gender-safe
genderscape
gendersex
genderspeak
genderspecial
gender-specific
gender-specifically
gender spectrum
gender star
gender studies
genderswap
gender swap
genderswapping
gender-swapping
gender swaps
gender theory
gender transition
gendertrash
gender-vague
gender vague
gendervague
gender-variant
genderwise
gendie
grammatical gender
heterogender
homogender
hypergender
intergender
intragender
ipso gender
legal gender
like-gendered
metagender
meta-gender
monogender
multigender
natural gender
neurogender
neuter gender
nongender
omnigender
pangender
pan-gender
play the gender card
polygender
postgender
pregender
psychogender
rapid onset gender dysphoria
rapid-onset gender dysphoria
same-gender-loving
same gender loving
same-gender marriage
same gender
same-gender
sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts
subgender
third gender
transgender
TG
transgendercide
trans someone's gender
trigender
xenogender
xgender
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