Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gender"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gender \Gen"der\, n. [OF. genre, gendre (with excrescent d.), F.
genre, fr. L. genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind,
gender, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass.,
to be born, akin to E. kin. See {Kin}, and cf. {Generate},
{Genre}, {Gentle}, {Genus}.]
1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] ``One gender of herbs.'' --Shak.
2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.]
3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to
sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed
quality associated with sex.
Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to
words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies
to living objects. --R. Morris.
Note: Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when
the form is varied according to the gender of the words
to which they refer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gender \Gen"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gendered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Gendering}.] [OF. gendrer, fr. L. generare. See {Gender},
n.]
To beget; to engender.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gender \Gen"der\, v. i.
To copulate; to breed. [R.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gender
n 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 [syn: {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" [syn: {sex}, {sexuality}]
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