Geschlecht — meaning in English

English meaning

• gender noun The state of being male, female, or another identity, often understood as bound up with social roles and personal identity, distinct from biological sex.
• gendersex noun Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.
• generation noun All the people born and living at around the same time, seen as a group.
• ilk noun A type or category of people or things sharing similar characteristics, often used slightly dismissively.
• lineage noun A line of descent traced from an ancestor; a family's ancestry or a sequence of generations.
• race noun A contest to see who is fastest at reaching a goal.
• sex noun The biological category — male or female — based on reproductive roles.
• sexuality noun A person's sexual orientation, desires, or identity.
• strain verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.

Senses

Geschlecht is used for these senses in English:

• gender (obsolete) Class; kind. [14th–19th c.]
• gender 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.) [from 20th c.]
• gender (grammar) 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. [from 14th c.]
• gendersex Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.
• generation A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit. [from 14th c.]
• ilk A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
• lineage Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
• race A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.

gender — full definition

1. noun The state of being male, female, or another identity, often understood as bound up with social roles and personal identity, distinct from biological sex.
2. noun In grammar, a category — such as masculine, feminine, or neuter — that nouns and pronouns are sorted into in many languages.
3. verb To assume, assign, or address someone as having a particular gender.

Related German words