gender — meaning in English
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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.
Senses
gender is used for these senses in English:
- 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 studies An academic discipline which analyses constructions of gender and sexuality in society (with reference to other sociological characteristics like class, education, ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc.).
gender — full definition
- 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.
- noun In grammar, a category — such as masculine, feminine, or neuter — that nouns and pronouns are sorted into in many languages.
- verb To assume, assign, or address someone as having a particular gender.