gender

/dʒˈɛndɝ/

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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
Noun
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn''t want to know the sex of the foetus"