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gender English

Meaning gender meaning

What does gender mean?
Definitions in simple English

gender Noun

— A living thing's gender is its sex: male (man, boy), female (woman, girl), both, or neither. There are gender differences in everything from physical size to play style. The effects vary considerably according to such factors as class, race and gender. — Gender is a way of grouping nouns in some languages, for example: masculine, feminine &; neuter. In French, the gender affects everything from the choice of le or la to the adjective endings. — Someone's gender is whether they behave like a boy or girl. This is called masculine or feminine, and not the same as male or female. His gender was not traditional, he was a very feminine boy. — The gender of a cord, cable, or plug tells how it connects. If it has a hole (a socket) that can be plugged into, it is female. If it plugs into a hole, it is male. The microphone was the wrong gender for the computer's sound card.

gender

— 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 (= sex) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus

Synonyms gender synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as gender?

gender English » English

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Topics gender topics

What do people use gender to talk about?
Person Life

Male, female

Conjugation gender conjugation

How do you conjugate gender?

gender · verb

Examples gender examples

How do I use gender in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Some fish are able to change their gender.
The Irish jig and the French gigue differ in speed, microrhythmics, and German gender.
Favoring one gender over another won't win you any friends here.
All of the people in this room have the same gender.
You should not discriminate against people based on their gender.
In French, adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they qualify.
German has a gender system, every noun has a gender: male, female, or neutral.
Russian adjectives agree in gender, number, and case with the nouns or pronouns to which they refer.
Discrimination on the basis of gender is prohibited.
In many languages, it is difficult to produce text or speech that does not give away one's gender.
In many languages, it is difficult to write in the first person without giving away one's gender.
Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood has a neutral gender, while Charles Perrault's has a masculine one.
Some attention should be paid to word order, gender and declension.
Some animals change gender.
Tom registered for gender reassignment surgery.
Many transgender people experience gender dysphoria.
In English, it is very easy to write entire books without giving away your gender. This is unlike Romance or Slavic languages, which inflect adjectives, and sometimes even verbs, for gender.
In many languages, it is difficult to speak or write without revealing one's gender.
There is no grammatical gender in Hungarian.

Movie subtitles

Where were you in my senior gender studies class?
I'm gonna be Bonnie, because gender is fluid nowadays.
Gender belongs to this question.
Gentlemanly relaxation with the opposite gender.
Keep in mind that words can't have the same meaning across languages, because they're not of the same gender.
The other motive, why to a public count I might not go, is the great love the general gender bear him.
Feminine beauty becomes something all-powerful, and it's for that reason I believe, that all the great ideas in French are in the feminine gender.
Ain't no doubt about your gender, girly.
The matter of gender could change the entire situation. Way ahead of you.
You are of female gender, right?
It's the prerogative of my gender.
If you've come to me to discuss the gender of the angels take this book.
I don't like to show my body to a man of my gender.
And if the patient does not want to have someone of their own gender?
To a woman of your age, sex should mean nothing but gender.
Young mares can always have little problems caused by the position of the planets or gender influences.
You are very interested in the other gender, huh?
The matter of gender could change the entire situation.
You are of female gender, are you not?
Oh, God, let's not start on gender equality!
The instinctive target of a woman when she finds herself in combat with another of her gender.
Communist Youth International, feminine gender.
An opposite person of the contradictory gender, that sort of thing.
All enlisted personnel of the feminine gender.
So, I got a court order allowing all qualified reporters. regardless of gender, access to the locker rooms.
No, but what 's your gender?
Dancing, snack bar, soft drink bar. Gentlemanly relaxationwith the opposite gender.
Yes. The matter of gender could change the entire situation.
All she lacks is the primacy of our gender.
I decline to answer that question out of respect for your gender.
One of the feminine gender your father encountered in Istanbul.
Gender treachery.
The past participle agrees with gender and plural of the complement when it is placed before.
It's hard to grasp the idea of no gender.
Let me ask you, what's it like on a planet where people have no gender?
Because we don't have gender doesn't mean we don't have conflicts.
The idea of gender, it is offensive to my people.
I don't mean to sound insulting, but on my planet we have been taught that gender is primitive.

News and current affairs

But cultural questions must also be addressed, because gender discrimination is the most important cause of maternal mortality.
Hiding behind the originality (in French presidential politics) of her gender, Royal has avoided specifying a detailed program.
The Republicans should not have been caught off-guard by Americans' interest in issues like disenfranchisement and gender equality.
Given entrenched gender segregation and paternal dominance, this finding appears to reveal a strong desire for greater individual choice in what has traditionally been a family-driven decision.
Obstacles to the professional advancement of educated women in Europe is rooted in corporate culture, gender biases, and stereotyping, rather than outright discrimination.
Companies that do not meet the new gender rules, which also apply to the public sector - risk being dissolved by court order.
Norway has set an excellent example - one that all of Europe should follow as the best way to transcend the culture of gender bias and stereotyping that is still prevalent in many companies and institutions.
Consider gender inequality.
Although much smaller, problems in health, education, malnutrition, air pollution, gender inequality, and trade remain large.
The possibility that a girl wearing a headscarf might in fact be rebelling against her parents and their kind of Islam, and that others might be deeply pious while being utterly revolted by gender discrimination or violence, is lost from view.
As a result, initiatives aimed at improving health, education, and gender equality have replaced large-scale construction projects.
Gender equality and women's empowerment, which are essential to overcoming poverty and disease, have made at best fitful progress, with insufficient improvement in girls' schooling opportunities or in women's access to political authority.
Gender issues have always been vital in the Turkish nation-state.
Mothers can spend more time in the job market, breaking long-standing barriers of gender inequality.
And the rest of Europe might never follow the example of Scandinavia, where gender equality has advanced much further than anywhere else.
The point, simply, is that with so many people in so many countries demanding far-reaching change, the politics of gender is very much in play - in Europe and beyond.
America was big on gender politics, and, as a graduate student there, I was embarrassed to be behind.
NEW DELHI - Ernest Hemingway's collection of stories, Men without Women, examines tense gender relationships.
And here they have no choice but to reflect on gender roles and relations.
But bucking gender roles works both ways.
Similarly, on a number of questions concerning gender equality - including political leadership, equal access to higher education, and wifely obedience - the numbers continued a downward trend.
There is better news on achieving gender parity in education, a key to reaching other goals, including lower infant mortality, which often comes about because educated women have fewer children.
Gender bias against women permeates throughout Africa, and women are usually blamed for bringing HIV into a relationship.
They see a president committed to the advancement of all Americans, regardless of race, gender, creed, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, handicap, or economic status.

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