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   gender

   /ˈdʒɛndə/

   noun

   • 1. either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female: "a condition that affects people of both genders"
   • ▪ members of a particular gender considered as a group: "social interaction between the genders"
   • ▪ the fact or condition of belonging to or identifying with a particular gender: "video ads will target users based only on age and gender"
   • 2. (in languages such as Latin, French, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections which they have and which they require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex.
   • ▪ the property (in nouns and related words) of belonging to a grammatical gender: "determiners and adjectives usually agree with the noun in gender and number"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French gendre (modern genre), based on Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation’. The earliest meanings were ‘kind, sort, genus’ and ‘type or class of noun, etc.’ (which was also a sense of Latin genus).

   Derivatives

   • 1. genderless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • G

     2

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

   • D

     2

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

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