είδος — meaning in English

English meaning

• class noun A group of people or things sharing common features; a category.
• 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.
• genus noun A biological classification rank grouping closely related species, sitting below family and above species.
• type noun A category or class of things that share particular features.

Senses

είδος is used for these senses in English:

• class (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
• gender (obsolete) Class; kind. [14th–19th c.]
• genus A group with common attributes.
• type (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)

class — full definition

1. noun A group of people or things sharing common features; a category.
2. noun A social group defined by wealth, occupation, or background.
3. noun A group of students taught together, or a single scheduled lesson.
4. noun Elegance, style, or dignified behaviour.
5. verb To place something or someone into a particular category.

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.

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