Male, female

Words referring to male and female people.

• What general words refer to the difference between male and female?
  sex gender male female
• What pairs of words refer to male and female people?
  the sexes male and female men and women boys and girls ladies and gentlemen guys and gals
• What words refer to something (such as a plant) that is neither male nor female?
  asexual sexless
• What words refer to something (such as a plant) that is both male and female?
  androgynous bisexual hermaphrodite hermaphroditic
• What words describe something to do with the sex of a person?
  sexual
• What words describe a school or organization that includes males and females?
  mixed coed
• What words describe a school or organization that includes only males or females?
  single-sex
• What words refer to a person of the other sex?
  the opposite sex
• What words refer to problems between men and women?
  sexual equality sexual discrimination sexism sexist male chauvinism male chauvinist feminism feminist

• Man
• Woman