gender meaning and definition

GENDER noun

Definition of gender (noun)

1. a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
   • synonyms: grammatical gender
2. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
   • "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
   • synonyms: sex, sexuality