Synonyms for gender
ˈdʒɛn dərgen·der

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1. gender

   Sex is a distinction among living beings; it is also the characteristic by which most living beings are distinguished from inanimate things, which are of no sex; gender is a distinction in language partially corresponding to this distinction in nature; while there are but two sexes, there are in some languages, as in English and German, three genders. The French language has but two genders and makes the names of all inanimate objects either masculine or feminine; some languages are without the distinction of gender, and those that maintain it are often quite arbitrary in its application. We speak of the masculine or feminine gender, the male or female sex.

   Synonyms:
   sex

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1. gender, grammatical gendernoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   grammatical gender, sex, sexuality

2. sex, gender, sexualitynoun

   the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

   "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"

   Synonyms:
   sexual urge, grammatical gender, sexuality, sex, sexual practice, sexual activity, sex activity

Matched Categories

1. • Grammatical Category
   • Physiological Property

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1. List of paraphrases for "gender":

   sex, gender-based, género, gen, sexes, gender-specific, gender-, gender-related, genus, kind, genre, parity, gender-sensitive, sexual, women, male-female, type, genera, sort

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1. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:

   It's 2015. [In response to being questioned on why he implemented gender equality in his cabinet.]

2. Said Hanson:

   Whatever aspect that we look at in wokeness, whether it’s gender or race or immigration, transgenderism, it does n’t have public support.

3. Jack Drescher:

   [It] is a purely medical description of a person who undergoes some medical or surgical treatment to change them from the gender they were born into the gender they wish to be.

4. Denis McDonough:

   We are taking the first necessary steps to expand VA's care to include gender confirmation surgery -- thereby allowing transgender vets to go through the full gender confirmation process with VA at their side.

5. Dave Chappelle:

   Gender is a fact. Every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. That is a fact.