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rodzaj — 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.
  • genre noun A category of artistic work, especially literature, music, or film, defined by a shared style or subject matter.
  • genus noun A biological classification rank grouping closely related species, sitting below family and above species.
  • kind noun A type or category of thing that shares common features with others.
  • sort noun A particular type or kind of something.
  • type noun A category or class of things that share particular features.
  • variant noun A form of something that differs slightly from a standard or original version.
  • variety noun A deviation or difference.

Senses

rodzaj 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.]
  • genre A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
  • kind (archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
  • kind (type theory) The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
  • type A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
  • variant Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
  • variety (algebraic geometry) Ellipsis of algebraic variety (“the set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition”).

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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