Definition of "gender" in Anglais

noun

1. (obsolete) Class; kind.

2. (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).

   • the gene is activated in both genders
   • The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.
   • To say truth, I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex; and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them […] .

3. 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.)

4. (grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.

5. (grammar) Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).

6. (hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).

verb

1. (sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.

2. (sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

adjective

1. (transgender slang) Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.

   • This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.

verb

1. (archaic) To engender.

   • […] being a stranger to those restrictions which were afterwards laid on his posterity by the Mosaic law, and which gendered a servile frame of spirit.

2. (archaic or obsolete) To breed.

noun

1. An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.