Gender (Noun)
Meaning 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.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 2
The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus".
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.