Gender Definition
jĕndər
genders
noun
genders
The formal classification by which nouns are grouped and inflected, or changed in form, so as to reflect certain syntactic relationships: pronouns, modifiers, and verbs may also be so inflected: although gender is not a formal feature of English, some nouns and the third person singular pronouns are distinguished according to sex or the lack of sex (Ex.: man or he, masculine gender; woman or she, feminine gender; door or it, neuter gender): in most Indo-European languages, as well as in many others, gender is not necessarily correlated with sex.
Webster's New World
Any one of such groupings, or an inflectional form showing membership in such a group.
Webster's New World
The fact of being classified as belonging to such a category.
Agreement in gender, number, and case.
American Heritage
Either of the two sexual divisions, male or female, into which human beings, or sometimes animals, are divided; sex.
Webster's New World
The fact or condition of being a human being with a sexual identity, esp. with regard to how this affects or determines a person's sexual orientation, self-image, social status, goals, etc.
Webster's New World
verb
To engender.
American Heritage
(sociology) To assign a gender to; to perceive as having a gender, or having been authored etc. by someone of that gender.
Wiktionary
(archaic) To engender.
Wiktionary
Origin of Gender
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Middle English gendre from Old French kind, gender from Latin genus gener- genə- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Middle English, from Middle French gendre, genre, from Latin genus (“kind, sort”). The verb developed after the noun.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English gendren, genderen, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre.
From Wiktionary
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