gender

Meanings

Plural: genders

Noun

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
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
Class; kind.
Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
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.)
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.
Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).
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).
Sex, sexual intercourse.
An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.

Verb

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

Adj

Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.

Synonyms

biological sex, gendersex, genre, grammatical gender, sex, sexuality, voice

Scrabble Score: 8

gender is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
gender is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gender is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

gender is a valid Words With Friends word