gender

noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Class; kind.

   “[…]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…]”

2. (countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable)Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).

   “the gene is activated in both genders”

   “The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.”

   “To say truth, I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex; and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them […] .”

   “In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse […] that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.”

   “Gender does not necessarily have primacy in this respect. Economic class and ethnic differentiation can also be important relational hierarchies, […].”

3. (countable, uncountable)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.)

   “I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person. To me for human beings to express themselves along gender lines is a wonderful and uniquely human phenomena.”

   “One wife I met at a conference was in a hurry for her husband to have the genital surgery because she worried about his gender and genitals not matching if he were in a car accident, […]”

   “Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man, announced in an April 2008 issue of the gay and lesbian news magazine, The Advocate, that he was pregnant. […] Moreover, he saw no conflict between his gender and his pregnancy.”

4. (countable, uncountable)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.

   “The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity.”

   “In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate gender […]”

   “Pronouns, for instance, are structures that organise information about continuous referents. This information is typically categorised in Romani according to Person, Number, Gender, Animacy, Case, and Discreteness.”

   “The common gender might well reflect an IE animate gender.”

5. (countable, uncountable)Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).

   “143. […] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs: Gender or Sort, Person, Number, Time, Mode, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. [...] 1st.--Of the Gender. 144. Gender means the same as sort or kind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passive verbs, Neuter verbs, and Impersonal verbs.”

   “Many of the words quoted are purely reflexive, others passive or deponent. Such words as óttask, œðrask, dásk, iðrask, reiðask are deponent, though they originally may have been reflexive, but the active gender is here quite obsolete.”

   “The general distinction is between three 'genders' out of the five genders of the Latin tradition: active gender, passive gender, neuter gender.”

6. (countable, uncountable)The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).

   “Connectors are identified by gender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, its gender is male.”

7. An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.

verb

1. 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.

   “In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2).”

2. To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

   “At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly.”

   “Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses.”

   “Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes.”

   ““Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices,” Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said in a statement. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether A.I. technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.””

3. (archaic)To engender.

   “[…] Abraham had two ſonnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman, was borne after the fleſh: but hee of the freewoman, was by promiſe. Which things are an Allegorie; for theſe are the two Couenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. […] But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all.”

   “[…] being a stranger to those restrictions which were afterwards laid on his posterity by the Mosaic law, and which gendered a servile frame of spirit.”

   “Our whole life was passed in public, which gendered a sympathy and good fellowship that always distinguishes Wykehamists from the rest of mankind.”

4. (archaic, obsolete)To breed.

   “Yee ſhall keepe my Statutes: Thou ſhalt not let thy cattel gender with a diuerſe kinde: Thou ſhalt not ſowe thy field with mingled ſeed: Neither ſhall a garment mingled of linnen and woollen come vpon thee.”

   “They are nearly round, a little flattish on one side, which lies next the bottom of the sea; and they are from one to eight inches thick. They crawl up into shallow water at particular seasons of the year, probably for the purpose of gendering, as we often find them in pairs.”

   “Fear in the witch's heart was gendering with her hate, Seeing her evil thought grown to an evil deed, […]”

adj

1. Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.

   “This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.”

   “miles [Morales] is so gender and the embodiment of a little guy I just want to give him a hug”

   “Seth Rogan eating the whole chicken drumstick off the bone and then asking how he’s still single is gender af”

   “ombras "whats good?" and "peace 😈" voicelines are so gender and i love her”

   “you draw her so gender, thank you i'm die forever”