| NOUN | communication | grammatical gender, gender | a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives |
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| 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 | 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 | |
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