género — 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.
• 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.
• type noun A category or class of things that share particular features.

Senses

género is used for these senses in English:

• genre A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
• genus (topology, graph theory, algebraic geometry) A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
• kind (type theory) The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
• type A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

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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