| NOUN | communication | gender, grammatical gender | a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives |
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| attribute | gender, sex, sexuality | the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |
| Sounds | jheh'nder | |
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| Rhymes | adder ... Zealander: 203 rhymes with der... | |
| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonym | grammatical gender | |
| Narrower | feminine | A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female |
| masculine | A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male | |
| neuter | A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) | |
| Broader | grammatical category, syntactic category | (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties |
| Spanish | género gramatical, genero, género, sexo | |
| Catalan | gènere gramatical, gènere | |
| Meaning | The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles. | |
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| Synonyms | sex, sexuality | |
| Attributes | androgynous | Having both male and female characteristics / characteristics |
| asexual, nonsexual | not having or involving sex | |
| female | The sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop | |
| male | The sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation | |
| sexual | having or involving sex | |
| Narrower | androgyny, hermaphroditism, bisexuality | showing characteristics of both sexes |
| femaleness, feminineness | The properties characteristic of the female sex | |
| maleness, masculinity | The properties characteristic of the male sex | |
| Broader | physiological property | A property having to do with the functioning of the body |
| Spanish | género, sexo, sexualidad | |
| Catalan | sexe, sexualitat | |
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