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English Dictionary: Gender by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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
    Synonym(s): gender, 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"
    Synonym(s): sex, gender, sexuality
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 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.] [bd]One gender of herbs.[b8] --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.
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