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 |
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Narrower | feminine | A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female |
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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 |
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Spanish | género gramatical, genero, género, sexo |
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Catalan | gènere gramatical, gènere |
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