gender

🇺🇸 /ˈdʒendər/ 🇬🇧 /ˈdʒendə(r)/
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noun
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whether someone is male or female, based on social and cultural roles rather than biology; a group of people who share this identity

The study looked at how gender affects career choices in different cultures.

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a category in grammar that classifies words as masculine, feminine, or neuter, affecting their form and agreement with other words

In Spanish, every noun has a gender, which determines the form of adjectives used with it.

translation

n. whether someone is male or female, based on social and cultural roles rather than biology; a group of people who share this identity; a category in grammar that classifies words as masculine, feminine, or neuter, affecting their form and agreement with other words

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Plural genders