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gen·der
/ ˈjendər/
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n.
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Gram.
(in languages such as Latin, Greek, Russian, and German) each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections that they have and require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex.
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the property (in nouns and related words) of belonging to such a class:
adjectives usually agree with the noun in gender and number.
2.
the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones):
traditional concepts of gender |
[as adj.]
gender roles.
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the members of one or other sex:
differences between the genders are encouraged from an early age.
ORIGIN: late Middle English: from Old French gendre (modern genre), based on Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation.’ The earliest meanings were ‘kind, sort, genus’ and ‘type or class of noun, etc.’ (which was also a sense of Latin genus).
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Gender Diversity: A Crosscultural Perspective
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Anthropology; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
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"GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT" AT THE WORLD BANK.
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Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives.(Review)
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Gender, schools, and school social workers
Magazine article from: Social Work in Education; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
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Gender Recognition Bill -- First reading.
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Gender Constancy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
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Gender Identity
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Gender Reassignment Surgery
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
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Gender: Study of
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