gender
Definition
- n. 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
Word forms
- Plural
- genders
Example sentences
n.
Gender plays an important role in many social issues today.
vt.
The new policy aims to gender more opportunities for women in the workforce.