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Gender
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English
Noun
gender, plural genders
- The collection of behavioural characteristics associated with one's sex; condition of being masculine or feminine.
- (Grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common.
- (euphemistically, or to avoid confusion with sex in the sense of sexual relations) Sex (male or female).
Related terms
Translations
- Dutch: geslacht n, sekse f
- Finnish: sukupuoli (1, 3), sosiaalinen sukupuoli (1); suku (2)
- French: sexe m (1), genre m (2)
- Frisian: slachte n, geslacht n
- Greek: γένος
- Italian: sesso m, genere m
- Latin: genus
- Portuguese: sexo m
- Romanian: sex n (1), gen n (2)
- Spanish: género m
See also
- Wikipedia article on gender
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