📖 Definitions of "Gender"
- 1
Class; kind.
- 2
(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
- 3
(now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
"The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors."
- 4
Identification as a man, a woman or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
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To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
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To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
- 1
Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
"His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir."
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Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- 3
The tone or sound emitted by an object
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The faculty or power of utterance
"to cultivate the voice"
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